52 NoviTATKS ZooLoaicAis XXV. 1918. 



286. Oedicnemus arenarius Brehm = Burhinus oedicnemus oedionemus. 

 Oedicnemus arenarhi^ Brehm, Handb. Naturg. Vog. Devischl. p. 539 (1831 — " Siideuropa "). 



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

 Museumj 



287. (?) Aegialitis septentrionalis Brehm = Charadrius hiaticula hiaticula. 

 Aegialitis septentrionalis Brehm, Handb. Naturg. Vog. DeutsM. p. 548 (1831 — Iceland to Kiel). 



Probable type : S 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 (?) A^alitis pygmaea Brehm = Charadrius duhius curonicus. 

 Aegialitis pygmaea Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 282 (1855 — " In Siidosteuropa, 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 

 that it was bound to occur in S.E. Europe as well ; in this case he accepted the 

 occurrence 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 alexandrinus alexandrinus. 

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



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



290. Aegialitis Homeyeri Brehm = Artefact ! 



Aegialitis Homeyeri Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 283 (1855 — " Rugen "). 



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

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

 again by Miss Jackson and me. 



291. Aegialitis gigas Brehm = Charadrius geoffroyi. 

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



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



292. Charadrius altifrons Brehm = Charadrius apricarius. 

 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 (Okara' 

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

 caught near Ahlsdorf (between Mansfeld and Bisleben) on July 1, 1827, showing that the Dotterel 

 used to breed there ninety years ago. 



