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118. Sitta caesia minor A. E. Brehm = Sitta evropaea hispaniensis. 



Silta caesia minor (nee S. minor Bechst !) A. E. Brehm, AUg. D. Nalvrh. Zeitung, 1857. p. 447 

 (Spain). 



Type : ? ad., Pardo near Madrid, 14. ii. 1857. A. E. Brehm leg. 



Evidently the Spanish Nuthatch is a good, recognisable subspecies. Pyre- 

 naean specimens resemble the British race in their pale underside, thus also 

 the Spanish one ; but a better series should be compared. 



119. Parus intercedens Brehm = Parus major major. 



Pants inlercedens Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 241 (\ii55 — " Mitteldeutsclilan'l ") : Nniimannia, 1856. 

 p. 368. 



Type: rj Greiz, 19. x. 1819. Oberlander leg. On the back of the label: 

 " Nova species a nobis detecta.'" 



120. Paras pallidus Brehm = Parus major major (aberr.). 



Parus pallidus Brehm, Naumannia, 1856. p. .367 (Description of a pale specimen, which the author 

 formerly mistook for bokharenais). 



Type : $ ad., Greiz, 24. x. 1834. Oberlander leg. 



Tlus is a remarkably pale variety ; the back is ashy grey, with a hardly 

 perceptible faint greenish hue, the underside almost white. It thus looks indeed 

 very much like a P. major bokharensis, but is, of course, an aberrant P. major 

 major. The type of P. intercedens is also a pale example, but similarly pale and 

 even paler specimens are found occasionally elsewhere in Germany, France, Italy, 

 Spain, and in England and Morocco. 



121. Parus melanothoiax Olphe-GaUiard = Partis cinctus cinctus. 



Parus melanothora.r Olplie-Galliard ex Brclim IIS., nni. Jahrb. 1892. p. 137 (Norway). 



Type: " d transitu a veste juven. ad vestem perfectam, Norge, lO.viii. 

 1860." A. E. Brehm leg. 



*122. Parus lugens Brehm = Partis lugvbris lugens. 



Parus lugens Brehm, Vogdfang, p. 243 (1855 — Greece). 



Type: S Attica, 1844. A. Lindermayer leg. 



(See Brehm, Isis, 1845. p. 331 ; Reiser, Ornis Balcanica, iii. p. 176 ; 

 Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 368.) 



*123. Parus stagnatilis Brehm = Parus palustris stagnatilis. 



Pariis stagnatilis Brelim, Vogeljang, p. 242 (1855 — Galicia). 



Tjrpe: S ad.. East Galicia, 3. i. 1853. Graf Wodzicki leg. (Cf. Klein- 

 schmidt, Orn. Jahrb. 1897, p. 69.) 



124. Parus subpalustris Brehm = Parus palustris communis. 



Parus subpalustris Brehm, Vogdfang. p. 242 (1855 — " Deutschland." All specimen.1 in the collec- 

 tion from Renthendorf, terra typica therefore : Renthendorf). 



Types : A paired pair, Renthendorf, 4. i. 1851. C. L. Brehm leg. 



