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In Vog. -pal. Faurm, i. p. 77, I erroneously called the species flammea. In 

 an article in the Orn. Monatsber. 1907. p. 97, and in the " Inhalt " to vol. i. 

 of Vog. pal. FaiuM, p. xviii., I have fully explained that this stupid error was 

 caused by a disturbance which led me to read Linnaeus" s next paragraph, instead 

 of the one relating to his Fringilla fammea. If writers now continue to call the 

 Redpoll Carduelis (or Amnthis or Linaria) /kimmea, the blame must fall on 

 them, as I cannot do more than correct my mistake and to use the right name. 



It is interesting to find that the Brehm Collection contains five undoubted 

 typical specimens of Carduelis linaria cabaret shot near Renthendorf in Novem- 

 ber 1822, November 1847, and January 1848. Manuscript names show that 

 old Brehm recognized their difference, but I cannot find the names in print. 



19. Pyrrhvila minor Brehm * = Pyrrhula pyrrhula curopaea. 



"Pynhnla minor Homeyer " " Brehm, Isis, 1834. p. 253 (Febr. 1833 bei Greifswald). 



Type : S ad., Greifswald, 16. ii. 1833. Received from E. F. von Homeyer. 



20. Corytlms splendens Brehm = Pinicola enudealor leuciira. 



Corythus splendens Brehm, Isis, 1840. p. 590 (North America). 



Type: <S ad. Nordamerika, Jan. 1833. 



The A.O.U. Check-list of 1910 accepted the name leuciira (Loxia leucura 

 Miiller, Natursystem, Suppl. p. 150 (1776— ex Buffon), but I consider this some- 

 what daring, as the " white rump " does not exist in this species ; it might 

 have slipped in on account of P. L. S. Muller's colour-blindness, but the figure 

 of Daubenton, which was Miiller's source, does not show the rump-feathers at 

 aU. If leucura is rejected, Brehm's name splendens could be used, as it antedates 

 Cabani's canadensis by eight years. 



21. Crucirostra major Brehm = Loxia pytyopsittacus. 



Crucimstra major Brehm, Naumnnnia, 18.53. p. 181, 182 (Winter 1847—1848). (This is the correct 

 quotation.) 



Type: S, shot with its paired female by one of C. L. Brehm's sons, 



27. xii. 1847, Rodatal. In Naumannia is said that this pair was shot on 



28. xii. 1847. The label, not in C. L. Brehm's, but perhaps Oskar Brehm's 

 handwriting, says 27. xii. 



(The name major is, of course, antedated by pytyopsittacus, moreover 

 BUlberg named the species Loxia major, p. 18 of his Fauna Scand. 1828. This 

 quotation should be added to my Hst of synonyms, p. 122 of Vog. pal. Fauna.) 



Crucirostra subpytiopsittacus Brehm = Loxia pytyopsittacus. 



In Vog. pal. Fauna, i. p. 122, I quoted as first description, Handb. Nat. Vog. 

 Deutschl. p. 242, but it had appeared akeady in Isis, 1827. p. 706-710, with a 

 much fuller description. Unfortunately the type does not exist in the collection. 

 The author mentioned eight specimens in his collection, shot in the woods about 



* This synonym has hitherto been overlooked, I beheve, by all compilers of lists of synonyms ! 

 It must be added to the names on p. 94 of Vog. pal. Fauna. 



On p. 106 must be added to the synonyms of Carpodacue erythrinus erythrinas : Erythrothorax 

 mediua, Seyffertitz and Brehm, Isis, 1833. p. 782 (.^hlsdorf). This name, too, is new to the list* 

 of synonyms. The typo is not in the Brehm Collection. 



