Corvus sinuatus ̔ MS

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 : 31

Corvus sinuatus ̔ MS Lichtenstein’ Wagler, 1829: col. 748

TL: Mexico, restricted to Ixmiquilpán (see below) [20°30’N, 99°12’W].

Now Corvus corax sinuatus Wagler, 1829 . See Meinertzhagen 1926: 102, Stresemann 1954 a: 89, Blake & Vaurie 1962: 279, Dickinson 2003: 514.

SYNTYPE: ZMB 1501. Male. Loc.: Ixmiquilpec [=Ixmiquilpán, Mexico]. Date: [not given = 13 April to 16 July 1826 according to Stresemann (1954 a: 87)]. Coll.: Deppe. [Ex, Mus, Meise MS].

COMMENTS: A second historical, formerly mounted bird from Mexico in the collection, ZMB 1500 [data on label: Mexico, Aschenborn], had been obtained from Alwin Aschenborn. It arrived in the ZMB in October 1841, too late for the original description (ZMB archives, Zool. Mus., Sign. SI, Aschenborn, A., p. 11). Other syntypes were originally designated as being at RMNH (“Mus. Lugd.”) but none are listed in Dekker & Quaisser 2006. The label information gives ‘Ixmiquilpec’ [mispelling for Ixmiquilpán on the river Tula] as the collecting locality, thus the type locality can be formally restricted to that town. For an itinerary of Deppe’s travels see Stresemann (1954 a: 86–88). The name Corvus cacalotl Wagler 1831 : col. 527, now synonymized with C. c. sinuatus (cf. Meinertzhagen 1926: 102), was based on the texts and name of Hernandez (1651: 48, cap. Clxxiv, de Cacalotl, seu Corvo) and not on any ZMB specimen.