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280. Columba elegans Brehm = Columba livia schimperi. 



Columba elegans Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 256 (1855 — " Verirrt sich aus Nordostafrika naoh Siidost- 

 . europa "). 



Type : ^ ad., Wadi Haifa, Egypt, 28. ix. 1856. A. E. Brehm coll. 

 Bonaparte's name schimperi has one year's priority over Brehm's elegans. 



281. Columba glauconotus Brehm = Columba Uvia schimperi. 



Columba glauconotus Brelim, Vogeljang, p. 256 (1855 — " Kommt aua Nordostrafrika nach 

 Siideuropa "). 



Type : $, moulting from juvenile to adult plumage. Below Korosko, 

 Nubia, i.x. 1851. A. E. Brehm coll. 



282. Colnmba unicolor Brehm = Black variety of Columba livia schimperi, 

 perhaps offspring of domesticated or semi-domesticated birds. 



Coluwha unicolor Brehm, Vogeljang, p. 256 (1855 — Partim ! " In den Wiisten Nubiens und unseren 

 Taubenschlagen." It i.s quite true that in European dovecotes blackish birds of the colour 

 of the type of C. unicolor occur, but they are larger than C. I. schimperi. Probably the bird 

 in question is an offspring of domestic or semi-domesticated birds, but it can of course also bo 

 a melanistic wild bird). 



Type : S ad., below Korosko, Nubia, 2. x. 1851. A. E. Brehm coll. 



283. Peristera rufldorsalis Brehm = ? Streptopelia turtvr arenicola. 



Peristera rufidorsalis Brehm, Vogeljang, p. 257 (1855 — "' In Siidosteuropa, im Winter in Nord- 

 ostafrika." Reichenbach, Tauben, p. 173, says: " Westasien, Griechenland ? ; Afrika : 

 Chartum. Brehm"). 



There is only one bird in the Brehm Collection labelled as rufidorsalis. It 

 is quite possible that it is the only specimen which Brehm had, when he created 

 the name rufidorsalis, and perhaps the only one that Reichenbach saw. It is 

 a female shot by A. E. Brehm at Khartum, 6. iv. 1851. The coloration is some- 

 what intermediate between that of Streptopelia turtur turtur and arenicola. It 

 is therefore uncertain and cannot supersede the nair.e arenicola of 1894. 



284. Peristera glauconotus Brehm = ? Streptopelia turtur turtur. 

 Peristera glauconotus Brehm, Vogeljang, p. 257 (1855 — N.E. Africa in the winter). 



The type is a $ shot in Sennaar in December 1850, by A. E. Brehm. It is 

 a bird of the year, the jugulum and head distinctly showing that it is a young 

 bird. The wings are rather dark rufescent, and I do not think it can possibly 

 belong to arenicola ; but the wing is exceedingly short, measuring only 153 mm. 



285. Turtur cyanotus Brehm = ? Streptopelia turtur turtur. 



Turtur cyanotus Bi-ehm, Naturg. u. Zucht. Tauben, p. 50 (1857 — Sennaar, December). 



T. cyanotus is merely a new name for glauconotus ; the type is the same 

 specimen. 



