40 KOVITATES ZOOLOOIOAE XXV. 1918. 



208. Athene major Brehm = Athene noctua noctua. 

 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, Naumannia, 1858. p. 226 (" Attika und Unteragypten "). 

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



*210. Athene Vidalii Brehm = Athene noctua vidalii. 

 Athene Vidalii A. E. Brehm, Allg. D. Naturh. Zeit. 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 femiginea Brehm = Athene noctua glaux. 

 Athene ferruginea Brehm, Naumannia, 1858. p. 229 (Achmim in Upper Egypt). 



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



212. Athene inteicedens Brehm = Athene noctua glaux. 

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



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



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

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

 as well as in those from Egj^t. 



213. Glaucidium microrhynchum Brehm = Glaucidium pass, passerinum. 

 Glaucidium microrhynchum Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 36 (1855 — Sweden). 

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



214. Strix splendens Brehm = Tyto alba alba. 



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

 1858. p. 218 (" Nordostafrika " Hemprich and Ehrenberg coll., " Sennaar " AUred Brehm coll., 

 Strassburg). 



Type: 3 Cairo, 5. xi. 1848. Evidently collected by Hemprich and Ehren- 

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

 on labels. 



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

 the Cairo birds were evidently his t3rpes. 



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



Athene', paaaerina vulgaris Brehm, Naumannia, 1858. p. 223 (near Renthendorf) and Athene 

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

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

 questionably united with A. m. indigena have been named Athene glaux keaeleri by Semenow (Mim. 

 Acad. St. Peterahourg, 8 ser. viii. note, p. 14 (1899). The entire description, however, is " intei- 

 mediate between A. glaux and A. noctua." 



