_Corvus Kubaryi_ Reichenow, Journ. f. Ornith., 1885, p. 110. (Type
locality, Palau, error = Guam.)
_Corvus solitarius_ Kittlitz, Obser. Zool., in Lutké, Voy. "Le
Séniavine," 3, 1836, p. 305 (Guahan); Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus
Acad. Sci. Paris, 37, 1853, p. 830 (Mariannes); Kittlitz, Denkw.
Reise russ. Amer. Micron. und Kamchat., 2, 1858, p. 143 (Guahan);
Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, (3), 7, 1895, p. 216
(Guam and Rota).
_Corvus_ spec. Hartlaub, Journ. f. Ornith., 1854, p. 167
(Mariannen); Gray, Hand-list Birds, 2, 1870, p. 12 (Marianne).
_Corvus kubaryi_ Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 59 (Guam,
Rota); Wheeler, Report Island of Guam, 1900, p. 13 (Guam);
Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, p. 112 (Guam); Seale, Occ.
Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1901, p. 55 (Guam); Safford,
Osprey, 1902, p. 69 (Guam); _idem_, The Plant World, 7, 1904, pp.
3, 264 (Guam); _idem_, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., 9, 1905, p. 79
(Guam); Prowazek, Die deutschen Marianen, 1913, pp. 87, 102
(Marianen); Reichenow, Die Vögel, 2, 1914, p. 306 (Palau);
Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 64 (Marianne); Cox,
Island of Guam, 1917, p. 21 (Guam); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 69 (Guam, Rota); Meinertzhagen, Novit. Zool.,
33, 1926, p. 73 (Guam); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p.
169 (Guam, Rota); Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936, p. 25
(Guam); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 187 (Guam,
Rota); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 298 (Guam, Rota);
Watson, The Raven, 17, 1946, p. 41 (Guam); Wharton, Ecol. Monogr.,
16, 1946, p. 174 (Guam); Strophlet, Auk, 1946, p. 540 (Guam);
Baker, Ecol. Monogr., 16, 1946, p. 408 (Guam); _idem_, Condor, 49,
1947, p. 125 (Guam); _idem_, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no.
15, 1948, p. 66 (Guam, Rota).
_Corone phillipina_ Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus.
Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 46 (Marianne).
_Corone kubaryi_ Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus.
Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 46 (Pelew, error = Guam).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam, Rota.
_Characters._--Adult: A small, black crow with a slight
greenish-black gloss on head; back, wings, and tail with
bluish-black gloss; underparts with dull, greenish-black gloss;
bases of feathers light grayish, more nearly white on neck,
producing a somewhat ragged appearance; nasal bristles short but
extending over nostrils and base of culmen; bill and feet black;
iris dark brown. Female smaller.
Immature: Resembles adult, but feathers with less gloss; wings and
tail browner.
_Measurements._--Measurements of _Corvus kubaryi_ are listed in
table 35.
_Weights._--The NAMRU2 party obtained weights of the Marianas Crow
as follows: from Guam, 5 males, 231-270 (256), 11 females, 205-260
(242); from Rota, 1 male, 256; 1 female, 260 grams.