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of Germany. The coloration of the underside is always variable in Dippers ; 

 even of C. c. cinclus specimens are found occasionally with some rufous on the 

 breast. 



*184. Cinclus meridioualis Brehm = Cinclus cinclus meridionalis. 



Cinclus meridionalis Brehm, Naumannin, ISoii. |>. ISG (Karnthen, von Guber coll.). 



Type: $ ad., Ressnig in Kar,.tlicu, 10. xi. 1834; von Guber leg. Prob- 

 ably this should be " von Hueber." Most Carintliian specimens in the collection 

 were collected by tliis gentleman, who is the author of a book on the birds of 

 Carinthia.* 



185. Cypselus fuscicollis Brehm = Apus melba ujricanus. f 



Cypselus juscicollis Brehm, Vo'jdjang, \>. 45 (IS.'Jo — " Afrika "). 



Type : " S vere, promontorium bonae spei." 



*186. Upupa major Brehm = Upupa epops major. 



V pupa majur Brehm, Voijdjanrj, p. 78 (1S5.5 — Egypt). 



Type: d ad. (erroneously marked •,>), Egypt, 16. iii. 1S49. Baron von 

 Miiller's Expedition. A. E. Brehm leg. 



187. Alcedo paUida Brehm = Alcedo atthis ntlhis (L.). 

 Alcedu pallida A. E. Brclim, Joiim. /. (hn. ISo.i. p. 4.54 | (E};ypt) ; L'. L. Brehm, Vo'jdjang. p. 51 



(IS.M). 



Type: V ad., Fua, Delta of the Nile, 27.x. I,s4i). A. E. Brehm leg. 



About the name of the European and Egyptian Kingfisher see Laubmann, 

 Verh. Orn. Ges. Baijern, xii. 4. p. 238 (1916). It is quite clear that Linnaeus, 

 Sysl. Nat., ed. x. i. p. 109 (1758), under the name of Graculu Atthis, described the 

 Egyptian Kingfisher, ex " Hassclquist, iter 140, n. 20," where a full and unmis- 

 takable description is given. The North African form of our Kingfisher must 

 therefore be called : Alcedo atthis atthis (L.), and the European one : Alcedo atthis 

 ispidu Li. 



*188. Geciuus pinetorum Brehm = Picus viridis pinetorum. 



Gecinua pintlurum Brehm, Handh. Xalmy. Voij. DkuIscM. p. 197 (IS.'il — " Bewohiit die dcutschen 

 Fichtenwalder "). 



Type : $ ad., Renthendorf, 4. ii. 1816. C. L. Brehm leg. 



* The following correction must be made xmder Chelidon rufiti^a ruHtica on p. 800 of Vog. pal. 

 Fauna : The name Cccropis ttabulorityn Brehm was first i")ublishcd litis. 1841. p. 132, and described 

 from Renthendorf and neighbourhood ; the author calls it " die gewohnlichste Schwalbe unserer 

 Gegend." To the synonyms must be added : 



Cecropls aedium Brehm, Isis, 1841. p. 132 (Kiirnlhoii). No type of any of the names of Swal- 

 lows can be fixed with certainty in the Brehm Collection. 



I Cypfdus murinus Brehm was first described, /sj», IH40. p. oO.'J, from specimens from L'pper 

 Egypt, probably in the Berlin JIuseum. The specimen from Siut, collected by A. E. Brehm in 

 1850, can therefore not be the type of the name murinii.'i '. 



t This is the first publication of the name ! 



