gg NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAB XXV. 1918. 



314. Limosa major Brehm = Limosa limosa limosa. 



Limoaa major Brehm, Isis, 1845. p. 352 (Hungary, but once shot near .Ahlsdorf). 

 Type : S ad., Hungary, 5. v. 1836. 



315. Limosa grisea Brehm = Limosa limosa limosa. 



Limosa grisea Brehm, Vogdfang, p. 309 (1855 — Lake Menzaleh). 



Type : o ad., in winter plumage, Lake Menzaleh, Egypt, 29. iv. 1849. A. E. 

 Brehm leg. End of April is unusually late for winter plumage ; this must also 

 have been Brehm's notion and why he had separated it, but as the plumage is 

 much worn, there seems to have been no good reason for his new species. There 

 is also a female in similar plumage shot 30. iv. 1849. 



316. Limosa brachyptera Brehm = Limosa limosa limosa. 



Limosa brachyptera Brehm, Vogeljang, p. 309 (1855 — " Verirrt sich aus Nordostafrika und Weft- 

 asien nach Si'idosteuropa "). i 



Type: (j ad., Lake Menzaleh, 9. iv. 1849. A. E. Brehm leg. 



317. Nnmenius rufescens Brehm = Numenius arguatvs arguatus. 



Numenius rvfescens Brehm, Vogeljang, p. 30-2 (1855 — " Siideuropa und Nordafrika." " Siideuropa " 

 is probably, as often in the Vogeljang, theoretical ; as the collection contains only one 

 specimen from Africa, which agrees with the description, I have no doubt as to its being the 

 type). 



Type : (J " Algeria." 



318. Numenius IsIandicGS Brehm = Numeyiius phaeopus phaeopus. 



Numenius Islandicus Brelim, Hayidb. Salurg. Vog. Deutsrhl. p. 610 (1831 — Iceland). 

 Tj'pe : o ad., Iceland, June 1819. 



319. Scolopax pinetoram Brehm = Scolopax rusticola rusticola. 



Scolopax pinetorum Brehm, Haruib. Natiirg. Voj. Deutsch.. p. 613 (1831 — Pinewoods of Brehm's 

 neighbourhood). 



There are a number of specimens in the collection. I think that most 

 probably an adult ij, shot with its female near Wiistenwetzdorf , i. x. 1827, has 

 chiefly served for the description. 



320. Scolopax sylvestris Brehm = Scolopax rusticola rusticola. 



Scolopax sylvestris Brehm. Haiulh. Naturg. Yog. Deiitschl. p. (il4 (IS.'il — Passing through the dis- 

 tricts where Brehm collected). 



Several specim.ens shot before 1831 are marked as sylvestris; though the 

 date is late for a migrant, an adult male, shot near Wiistenwetzdorf, 14. v. 1828, 

 seems to have served for the description, which, like that of "pinetorum," is 

 chiefly based on the shape of the skull, which varies individually. 



