40 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 



208. Athene major Brehm = Athene, noctua noctvM. 



Athene major Brehm, Naumannia, 1858. p. 222 (Pommern, E. von Homeyer leg).* 



Tjrpe : ? ad., Pommerania, November 1853. Eugen von Homeyer leg. 

 The label has : " Species nova a nobis detecta rarissima.." 



*209. Athene indigena Brehm = Athene noctua indigena. 

 Athene indigena Brehm, Xaumannia, 18.58. p. 22G (" Attika und Unteragypten "). 



Type : $ ad., Attica, iv. 1842. Dr. Lindermayer leg. 



*210. Athene Vidalii Brehm = Athene noct^ia vidalii. 



Athene Vidalii A. E. Brehm, Allg. D. Natiirh. Zcit. 1857 (Spanien) ; C. L. Brehm, Naumannia, 1858. 

 p. 224 (South Spain, chiefly near Murcia. Much fuller description of this very distinct sub- 

 species). 



Type : ? ad., Murcia, 10. ix. 1856. A. E. Brehm leg. 



211. Athene ferruginea Brehm = Athene noctua glaux. 



Athene jerruginea Brelim, Naumannia, 1858. p. 229 (.\chmim in Upper Egypt). 



Type : 3 ad., Achmim, Upper Egypt, 8. iii. 1850. A. E. Brehm leg. 



212. Athene intercedens Brehm = Athene noctua glaux. 



Athene intercedens Brehm, Naumannia, 1858. p. 227 (Algeria, collected by Dr. Buvry). 



Type : S, Plain of Ain-Mokra on lac Fetzara, 3. v. 1855. L. Buvry leg. 



This specimen looks rather different from the type of jerruginea, but both 

 are within the range of individual variation as shown in our series from Algeria 

 as well as in those from Egypt. 



213. Glaucidium miciorhynchum Brehm = Glaucidium jyass. passerimim. 



Glaucidium microrhynchum Brehm, Yogeljang, p. 30 (1855 — Sweden). 



Type : ? FinspSng, S. Sweden, iii. 1846. 



214. Strix splendens Brehm = Tyto alba alba. 



Strix splendens Brehm, Vogdjang. p. 40 (1855 — " Nordostafrika und am Rheine ") ; Naumannia, 

 1858. p. 21S (" Nordostafrika " Hemprich and Ehrenberg coll., "' Sennaar " Alfred Brehm coll., 

 Strassburg). 



Type: S Cairo, 5. xi. 1848. Evidently collected by Hemprich and Ehren- 

 berg, exchanged from the Berlin Museum, wliere Brehm had found the name 

 on labels. 



Though Brehm unitid with the Egyptian form a specimen from Strassburg, 

 the Cairo birds were evidently his types. 



* To the synonyms of Athene noctua noctua must be added : 



Athene', paaserina vulgaris Brehm, Naumannia, 1858. p. 22.3 (near Renthendorf) and Athene 

 passerina leucophrys Brehm, I.e. (" Nord — und Mitteldeutschland "). Both names were quoted as 

 nortiina nuda of 1866 in Yog. pal. Fauna, p. 1001. Specimens from the Crimea which I (p. 1003) 

 questionably united with A. in. indigena have been named Athene glaux l-essieri by Semenow (Mew. 

 Acad. St. Petersbourg, 8 ser. viii. note, p. 14 (1899). The entire description, however, is ' inlci- 

 mediate between A. glaux and A. noctua." 



