14 NOVITATKS ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 



31. Montifringilla glacialis Brehm = MontifringiUa nivalis nivalis (L.). 



ilonlijringilla glacialis Brehm, Handb. Xaturg. Vog. Deutschl. p. 270 (1831 — " Alpen Tyrols "). 



Type : S ad., Tirol, 12. i. 1828. 



Brehm distinguished between the Snow Finch of Switzerland and that 

 of Tirol, but there is no foundation for this. 



32. Petronia albigularis Brehm = Petronia dentata deniata (Sund.). 



Petronia albigularis Brehm, Naumannia, 1856. p. 377 (" Scnnaar "). 



Type : S Blue Nile, Sennaar, 22. ix. 1850, A. E. Brehm leg. 



33. Petronia sasorum Brehm = Petronia petronia petronia.* 



Petronia saxorum Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 97 (Saaletal). 



Type : o ad., with paired ?, Lobeda near Jena, 10. xii. 1826. 



The Rock-Sparrow must have been fairly common near Jena. There are 

 12 specimens from Lobeda and one from Wolmse near Jena, including young 

 birds from the nest, shot in 1816, 1819, 1826, 1828, 1852. 



34. Pyrgita nipestris Brehm = Petronia petronia petronia. 



Pyrgita rnpestris Brehm, Handb. Nalurg. Vo^. Dmt.sclil. p. 264 (1831 — " Er lebt nur in manclicn 

 Jahren in Saalthale >md brfit«t selten daselbst "). 



Type : 3 taken from nest on the Lobedaburg near Jena, 15. vi. 1816, died 

 in cage, 10. x. 1816. 



* 35. Petionia macrorhynchos Brehm = Petronia petronia mncrorhynchos. 



Pelrnnia m.acri.r'iijru:hos Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 927 (" Griechcnland "). 



Type : ' 3 ad., vere 1847, Griechenland." 



According to Fenk (Orn. Monatsber. 1914. p. 85) the Rock-Sparrow of 

 the Balkan Peninsula must be separated, as having generally a lighter colora- 

 tion and longer bill. 



36. Pyrgita valida Brehm = Passer domesticus domesticvs. 



Pyrgita valida Brehm, his, 1842. p. 887 f (" Dalmatieii "). 



Type : S Dalmatia, 24.iii. 1830. 

 37. Pyrgita brachyrhynchos Brehm = Passer domesticus domesticvs. 



Pyrgita brachyrhynchos Brehm, Isis, 1842. p. 890 (" Diese subspecies lebt in Dalmatien und Karn- 

 then "). 



Type : " <? vere, Dalmatien." 



• To the synonyms in Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 142, must be added : 



Pyrgita saxatilia Brehm, Harulb. Nat. Vog. Deutschl. p. 1012 (1831 — Kiirnthen. Type not in 

 collection). 



t This is the first pubUcation, not 18.55, as quoted in Vog. pal. Fauna, i. p. 147. 



The same is to be said about Pyrgita brachyrhynchos (vide supra), and Pyrgita iniercedens, which 

 was first described in Isis, 1842. p. 891. 



Pyrgita macrorhynchos Brehm, a name which I quoted as a nx)mcn nudum of A. E. Brehm, has 

 been fully described by C. L. Brehm, Isis, 1842. p. 887, from specimens from Hungary and Renthen- 

 dorf. 



