18 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXV. 19l8. 



56. Melanocorypha itala Brehm = Calanarella hrachydactyla hrachydactyla. 



Mdanocorypha itala Brehm, Isis. 1830. pp. 786, 792 (Sardinien).* 



Type : End of July 182-, Sardinia. Evidently a cage-bird received from 

 Graf Gourcy-Droitaumont, who had got it from Sardinia. 



57. Melanocoryhpa graeca Brehm = Calandrella hrachydactyla hrachydactyla. 



Mdanocorypha graeca Brehm, Voijeljang, p. 121 (1855 — " Griechenland bis Sennaar "). 



Type: 3 ad., Attica, April 1845. 



58. Melanocorypha tenuircstris Brehm = Calandrella hrachydactyla 



hrachydactyla. 



Mdanocorypha tenuirostris Brehm, his. 1845. p. 346 (n> locality) ; Vogdjang, p. 121 (1855 — " In 

 Griechenland und bei Triest '). 



Type: S ad., Attica, April 1845. Probably coU. by Lindermayer. 

 59. Melanocorypha gallica Brehm = Calandrella hrachydactyla hrachydactyla. 



Melanocorypha gallica Brehm, Isis, 1845. p. 345 (" Siid-Frankreich, namentlich bei Montpellier.") 



Type : <J ad., MontpeUier, iv. 1829. 



60. Alauda macroptera A. E. Brehm = Calandrella hrachydacfylahrachydactyla. 

 Alauda {Melanocorypha) macroptera A. E. Brehm, Jnurn. j. Orn. 1854. p. 77 (N.E. -Africa). 



Type : ? ad., Edfu, between Esneh and Assuan, Egypt, 19. iii. 1850. A. E. 

 Brehm leg. 



61. Melanocorypha brachydactyla immaculata A. E. Brehm = Calaiidrella 

 hrachydactyla hrachydactyla. 



Melanocorypha brachydactyla immaculata A. E. Brehm, Allg. D. Naturh. Zeit. 1857. p. 455 7 (" Bei 

 Murcia und Madrid"). 



Type: Murcia 24. viii. 1856. A. E. Brehm leg. 



The specimen has rather small dark patches on the sides of the jugulum, 

 but this is not peculiar to Spanish birds, but merely an individual character. 



*62. Melanocorypha Apetzii A. E. Brehm = Calandrella minor apetzii. 



Mdanocorypha Apetzii A. E. Brehm, Allg. D. Naturh. Zeit. 1857. p. 455 (Murcia). 



Type : ? ad., Murcia, 23. viii. 1856. A. E. Brehm leg. 



The single specimen shot by Brehm. This is, of course, the bird known for 

 some time as Calandrella baetica Dress. Cf. Vog. pal. Fauna, pp. 218. xxv. note 2. 



63. Melanocorypha galeritaria Brehm = Ammomanes deserti deserti. 



Melanocorypha galeritaria Brelini, Vogillaiig, p. 122 (185.5 — " Nordost-.'Vfrika "). 



Type ; <?, summer, in moult. " Nordost-Afrika." 



• This is the earliest appearance of the name ilala ! 



t This is the first quotation, and must be substituted for that given in Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 215. 



