JO NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 



157. Curruca musica Brehm = Sylvia hortensis crassirostris. 



Curruca musica Brchm, Vogelfang, p. 228 (1858— Sennaar) : id. Journ. f. Orn. 1856, p. 455. 

 Type : ? ad. Bahr-el-Asrah, Sennaar, 14. ix. 1850. A. E. Brehm leg. 



158. Curruca brachyihynchos Brehm = Sylvia borin borin. 



Curruca braehjrht/nchos Brchm. Handb. Nat. Vog. Deutschl. p. 416 (1831— " Sie lebt einzeln in 

 unsem Fichtcnwaldern '"). 

 Type : S ad., " Renthendorfer Nadelholz, Jun. 1817." C. L. Brehm leg. 



159. Curruca nigricapilla Brehm = Sylvia atric. atricapilla. 



Curruca nigricapilla Brelii!), Handb. Xal. Voj. Deutschl. p. 417 (1831 — "Sic bewohnt UQsere Fich- 

 tenwalder "). 



Types : cJ ? (pair), " Renthendorfer Nadelholz," 13. vi. 1830 (C. L. Brehm leg). 



160. Curraca superciliaris Brehm = Sylvia airrnca cmruca. 



Curraca superciliaris Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 228 (1855 — " Wandert durch die Lausitz und das 

 Salzburgische "'). 



Type : 3 Gorlitz in der Lausitz, 8.ix. 1828. Tobias leg. 



161. Curruca assimilis Brehm = Sylvia curruca curruca. 



Curruca assimilis Brelim. Wyelfang. p. 228 (1855 — Sennaar). 



Type: ? Blue Nile, Sennaar, xii. 1850. A. E. Brehm, leg. 



This specimen is very interesting. The white on the outermost rectrix 

 occupies the outer web, the tip and a broad Hne along the shaft of the ioner web. 

 and is quite pure and sharply divided. Though this is most unusual, the speci- 

 men can hardly be anything else than a S. c. curruca. Another ?, shot at the 

 same place and same time (also called assimilis on the label) has the white on 

 the inner web of the outermost tail-feather more restricted and somewhat 

 clouded with brown, as is usual in S. c. curruca. 



*(?) 162. Curruca obscura Brehm = Sylvia curruca obscura. 



Curruca obscura Brehm. Vogelfang. p. 228 (IS.iS — Grieclienland). 



Type: o ad., Attica, April 1845. A. Lindermayer leg. 



Cf. Reiser, Ornis Balcanica, m. p. 164 ! 



The wing of this supposed $ is only 60 mm. long. From what Reiser said — 

 that the specimens in the Museum at Athens and one S collected by Strimeneas 

 are very small (the latter wing 62 mm.) and that also eggs from Greece are rather 

 small — it would seem as if there was a speciaUsed form in Greece, but he considers 

 that enough material has not yet been examined to estabUsh the subspecies. 



163. Curruca luctuosa Brehm = Sylvia melanoc. melanocephala. 



Curruca luctuosa Brehm. Vogelfang, p. 229 (Dalniatien). 



Type: ,J ad. Dalmatia, 12. v. 1829. 



