52 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXV. 1918. 



286. Oedicnemus arenarius Brehm = Burhinus oedicnemns oedicnemus. 



Oedicnemvs arenarius Brehm, Handb. Naturg. Vog. Deutschl. p. 539 (1831 — "Siideuropa "). 



Type: ? ad., South Europe, 20. vi. 1823. Exchanged from the Berlin 

 Museum, 



287. (?) Aegialitis septentrionalis Brehm = Charadriiis hiatictda hiaticula. 



Aegialiiis septentrionalis Brelim, Handb. Naturg. Vog. Deutschl. p. 548 (1831 — Iceland to Kiel). 



Probable type : $ ad., Kiel, 20. v. 1824. Probably collected by Boie. As 

 there is no specimen from Iceland, I take it that the Kiel specimens are the 

 types, and that the Iceland birds may only have been seen by the author. 



288 (?) Aegialitis pygmaea Brehm = Charadrius dubius curoniciis. 

 Aegialitis pygmaea Brehm, Yvgeljang, p. 282 (1855 — " In Sudoiiteuropa, im Winter in Afrika "). 



Probable type : $ Edfu, Egypt, 25. ii. 1852. A. E. Brehm leg. 



Brehm was supposed to include in his Vogelfang only European birds, but 

 he was often anxious to mention his son's discoveries in Egypt and Nubia and 

 then to make excuses for it ; often he stated the correct locality and added 

 ' ■*• was bound to occur in S.E. Europe as well ; in this case he accepted the 

 occurreiiv,e in Europe as a fact — at least I consider this to be possible, as there 

 is no skin from Europe marked as pygmaea, and tl>e specimen in question has a 

 rather short biU. Therefore I believe it to be the actual type, even if Brehm should 

 have had or seen others from S.E. Europe which he thought also to be pygmaea. 

 The specimen is doubtless a curonicus. 



289. Aegialitis albigularis Brehm = Charadrius alexavdrinns alexandrinus. 

 Aegialitis albigularis Brehm, Handb. Naturg. Vog. Deutschl. p. 552 (1831 — Kiel). 

 Types: <J ? ad., Kiel, 20. v. 1825. Probably Boie coll. 



290. Aegialitis Homeyeri Brehm = Artefact ! 



Aegialitis Homeyeri Brehm, Vogcl/ang, p. 283 (1855 — " Riigen "). 



The specimen consists of a skin of Charadrivs hiaticula with the head of 

 C. alexandrinus. This has already been pointed out by Kleinsohmidt, and 

 again by Miss Jackson and me. 



291. Aegialitis gigas Brehm = Cliaradrius geoffroyi. 

 Aegialitis gigas Brehm, Vogelfang. p. 283 (1855 — Suez). 



Type : ? Suez, 12. xi. 1851. A. E. Brehm coll. 



292. Charadrius altiirons Brehm = Charadrius apricarins. 



Charadrius altifrons Brehm, Handb. Naturg. Vog. Deutschl. p. 542 (1831 — Faeroe Islands, Riigen, 

 Germany). 



Type : Faeroe, July 1828. Probably coll. by Graba.* Other specimens 

 from Riigen, collected by Schilling. 



* Mention may be made here, though not a type, of a specimen of a young Dotterel {Chara- 

 drius morineltns) with down still covering the neck and showing on belly and rump, which was 

 caught near Ahlsdorf (between Mansfeld and Eisleben) on July I, 1827, showing that the Dotterel 

 used to breed there ninety years ago. 



