Mariana Crow

SCI Name:  Corvus kubaryi
Protonym:  Corvus Kubaryi J.Orn. 33 p.110
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Corvus
Taxonomy Code:  marcro1
Type Locality:  Palau, error for Guam.
Author:  Reichenow
Publish Year:  1885
IUCN Status:  Critically Endangered

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).

kubaryi
● Jan Stanisław Kubary (1846-1896) Polish collector in Micronesia and New Guinea, ethnologist, merchant in the Bismarcks 1885-1892, plantation owner on Ponapé/Pohnpei 1877-1882, 1896 where he committed suicide (Alopecoenas, Corvus, Rhipidura).
● Anna Kubary née Yelliott (d. 1937) daughter of US missionary on Ponapé/Pohnpei and wife of Polish collector Jan S. Kubary (syn. Dacelo gaudichaud).