Corvus enca celebensis Stresemann, 1936 : 368

Steinheimer, Frank D., 2009, The type specimens of Corvidae (Aves) in the Museum für Naturkunde at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, with the description of a new subspecies of Dendrocitta vagabunda, Zootaxa 2149 (1), pp. 1-49 : 24-25

Corvus enca celebensis Stresemann, 1936: 368

TL: Rurukan, North Celebes [= Rurukan, near Lake Tondano, Minahasa District, North Sulawesi; 01°20’N, 124°53’E]. Now Corvus enca celebensis Stresemann, 1936 . See Blake & Vaurie 1962: 264, Dickinson 2003: 512, Dickinson et al.

2004b: 122.

PARATYPES: ZMB 33.1091. Male. Loc.: Rurukan, N. - Celebes, 800m. Date : 14 February 1931. Coll.: Heinrich-Expedition No. 3720. Iris: dark brown. Feet: black. Bill: black. [S, Heinrich label]. ZMB 33.1084. Female. Loc.: Rurukan, N. - Celebes, 800m. Date: 14 February 1931. Coll.: Heinrich-Expedition No. 3719. Iris: dark brown. Feet: black. Bill: black. [S, Heinrich label]. ZMB 33.1085. Male. Loc.: Rurukan, N. - Celebes, 500m. Date: 30 January 1931. Coll.: Heinrich-Expedition No. 3487. Iris: dark brown. Feet: black. Bill: black. [S, Heinrich label]. ZMB 33.1083. Female. Loc.: Rurukan, N. - Celebes, 500m. Date: 30 January 1931. Coll.: Heinrich-Expedition No. 3488. Iris: dark brown. Feet: black. Bill: black. [S, Heinrich label].

COMMENTS: Gerd Heinrich’s (1896–1984) collection had been split between the Rothschild collection (now in AMNH), the AMNH and the ZMB. The holotype is AMNH 299071 (male, loc. Rurukan, 900 m, 17 February 1931, Heinrich no. 3753, cf. Dickinson et al. 2004b: 122). The ZMB holds five additional Celebes specimens of Heinrich’s from other than the type locality Rurukan. See Dickinson et al. (2004a: 93–95) for a detailed discussion on this species-group.