Crows (Corvidae)

White-billed Crow (Corvus woodfordi) - HBW 14, p. 621

French: Corneille à bec blanc German: Buntschnabelkrähe Spanish: Cuervo Piquiblanco
Other common names: Solomon(s) Crow

Taxonomy: Macrocorax woodfordi Ogilvie-Grant, 1887, Aola, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
Probably closest to C. meeki, C. fuscicapillus and C. tristis, all apparently forming part of an "old endemic" Melanesian group. May form a superspecies with C. meeki; sometimes treated as conspecific, but differs in bill and eye colours, nature of nasal bristles, and plumage gloss. Proposed race vegetus (described from S Santa Isabel) considered inadequately differentiated from those in rest of species' range. Monotypic.

Distribution: Choiseul, Santa Isabel and Guadalcanal Is, in Solomon Is.