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alone, the arrangement adopted in my Vog. d. pal. Fawna, beginning with the 

 Passer es instead of the Gallinae. 



Valid specific or snbspecifi^ names are marked with an *. 



1. Corvus sylvestris Brehm = C. corax corax L. 



Corvus sylvestris Brehm, Handb. Naturj. Voj. DeiitsM. p. 163 (1831 — " Er bewolint die VValder, 

 Ebenen oder die Vorholzer gebirgiger Gogenden Deutsclilands.") 



Type: ^ ad., Renthendorf, 15. v. 1817. C. L. Brehm leg. On the label: 

 " Corax communis sylvestris. Par unicum regionis. Vere cum femina con- 



junctUS." Cf. NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE, 1901. p. 40. 



2. Corvus montanus Brehm = C. corax corax L. 



Corvus montanvs Brehm, Handb. Nalurg. Yog. Devtschl. p. 165 (1831 — " Er bewohnt die deutschen 

 Alpen, z. B. die tyroler"). 



Type: ? annua, Tirol, 10. v. 1827. On the label: Corax commvnis mon- 

 tanus. 



3. Corvus littoralis Brehm = C. corax corax L. 



Corvus littoralis Brehm, Handb. Natvrg. Vog. Devtschl. p. 164 (1831 — " Er bewohnt die ncirdlichen 

 Seekiistcn unseres Vaterlandes ") . 



Type : o ad., Riigen, 20. i. 1826. On the label : Corax communis littoralis. 

 Specimen probably collected by Schilling, who about that time visited Pom- 

 merania and Riigen to collect for Brehm. See remarks about the misuse of 

 the name littoralis, No\t:tates Zoologicae, 1901. p. 42. 



4. Corvus peregrinus Brehm = C. corax corax L. 



Corvus peregrinus Brehm, Handb. Naturg. Vog. Devtschl. p. 164 (1831 — " Er gehcirt unserm Vater- 

 lande niclit an, sondern verirrt sich nur im Winter zuweilen und au£ unregelmaasigen Ziigen in 

 das^elbe."). 



Tj'pe : cJ ad., Renthendorf, 10. i. 1818. C. L. Brehm leg. Cf. Novitates 

 Zoologicae, 1901. p. 40. 



5. Corvus brachyurus A. E. Brehm = C. affinis Riipp. 



Corpus brachyurus A. E. Brehm, Journ. of Orn. 1854. p. 75 (" Aegypten "). 



Type: o ad., Luxor, 12. x. 1857. A. E. Brehm leg. The description, 

 which was looked upon as only a prehminary notice, is very poor, only the short, 

 broad tail and different habits being mentioned. That this specimen is the 

 type is certain, as Brehm specially said that he obtained only one example. 



This specimen is also the type of : 



Corvus hrachyrhynchus Alfr. Brm. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 414 (1855 — " Er 

 wird sich aus Nordostafrika nach Europa verirren"). 



Probably hrachyrhynchus is only a sUp for brachyurus, as the bird is called 

 " der kurzschwanzige Rabe." The distinctaess of this bird from all other 

 Ravens was at once noticed by A. E. and C. L. Brehm ; the latter wrote on the 

 label : " Corax brachyurus, species distincta." Neither of them were aware at 

 the time that RiippeU had already well described the species as Corvus affinis, 

 nineteen years before. Want of knowledge of literature was one of the great 



