Guadalcanal Crow

SCI Name:  Corvus woodfordi
Protonym:  Macrocorax woodfordi Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 no.22 p.332 pl.27
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Corvus
Taxonomy Code:  guacro1
Type Locality:  Aola, Guadalcanal.
Author:  Ogilvie-Grant
Publish Year:  1887
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CORVUS
(Corvidae; Ϯ Common Raven C. corax) L. corvus  raven. In fable the Raven was originally white but, despite its supposed gift of prophecy, was turned into a black bird for its treachery. The Common or Northern Raven is the largest species of passerine bird; "48. CORVUS.  Rostrum convexum, cultratum, basi pennis setaceis tectum.  Lingua cartilaginea bifida." (Linnaeus 1758); "Corvus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 105. Type, by tautonymy, "Corvus", i.e. Corvus corax Linnaeus." (Blake & Vaurie in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 261).  This is the ninth diagnosed genus in avian taxonomy.  Linnaeus's Corvus comprised twelve species (C. Corax, C. Corone, C. frugilegus, C. Cornix, C. Monedula, C. benghalensis, C. glandarius, C. cristatus, C. Caryocatactes, C. Pica, C. paradisi, C. infaustus).     
Var. Cervus, Coruus.   
Synon. Amblycorax, Anomalocorax, Archicorax, Coloeus, Corax, Corone, Corvultur, Frugilegus, Gymnocorax, Gymnocorvus, Heterocorax, Macrocorax, Microcorax, Monedula, Nesocorax, Palaeocorax, Physocorax, Pterocorax, Rhinocorax, Sitocorax, Trypanocorax.

corvus
L. corvus raven.
● From a local name Caa Maa crow gull, for the Black-legged Kittiwake in the Shetlands (syn. Rissa tridactyla).

woodfordi
Charles Morris Woodford (1853-1927) British naturalist, Resident Commissioner in the Solomons Protectorate 1896-1914 (subsp. Accipiter albogularis, Corvus, subsp. Erythrura trichroa, Hypotaenidia, Ixobrychus).

SUBSPECIES

Guadalcanal Crow (woodfordi)
SCI Name: Corvus woodfordi woodfordi
woodfordi
Charles Morris Woodford (1853-1927) British naturalist, Resident Commissioner in the Solomons Protectorate 1896-1914 (subsp. Accipiter albogularis, Corvus, subsp. Erythrura trichroa, Hypotaenidia, Ixobrychus).

Guadalcanal Crow (vegetus)
SCI Name: Corvus woodfordi vegetus
vegeta / vegetus
L. vegetus active, sprightly < vegere to be active.