{From, " Novitates Zoologicae^' Vol. XXVL Pp. 123-178. May, 1919.] 



TYPES OF BIEDS IN THE TRING MUSEUM. 



By Ernst Haetert, Ph.D. 



B. TYPES IN THE GENERAL COLLECTION. 



(For A., Types in the Brehm Collection, see Novitates Zoologicae, 



1918, pp. 4-63). 



I. COItVISAE TO MELIFHAGIDAE. 



THIS is the first instalment of the list of types in the general collection. It 

 is written on the same plan as the list of types in the Brehm Collection. 

 As, however, the majority of the names are valid — only 40 out of 338 being 

 now considered as anticipated, not valid or doubtful forms — a dagger (f) has 

 been placed against the names of species and subspecies which cannot be used, 

 while in the list of the Brehm types valid names were marked with an asterisk (*). 



The majority of the birds described from the Tring Museum are naturally 

 named by Lord Rothschild and myself, and next to ourselves by those ornith- 

 ologists who have temporarily worked here — i.e. Carl Hellmayr, Oscar Neumann 

 and Erwin Stresemann — but there are altogether also a good many types 

 made by other ornithologists in the collection, partly purchased with smaller 

 collections or allowed to be described when already in the Tring Museum, the 

 contents of which are so generously placed at the disposal of ornithologists from 

 all parts of the world. 



A critical examination of all types is not always easy and my judgment 

 may not be correct in every case, but I trust that it is so in nearly all instances. 



Tring, November 1918. 



COBVIDAE. 



1. Garrulus glandarius rufitergum Hart. = G. glandarius rufitergum. 



Oarrulus glandarius rufitergum Hartert, Yog. pal. Fauna, i. p. 30 (Novemb. 1903 — " Grossbritannien 

 und Irland." Ireland errore !) 



Type : cjad., Tilng, 21.x. 1895. Shot by Hon. (now Lord) Walter Roth- 

 schild. 



The British Jay is very closely allied to the continental form, but it is dis- 

 tinguishable if a series is compared ; moreover, it is of particular interest as a 

 stepping-stone from G. glandarius glandarius to G. glandarius hibernicus. 



2. Garrulus glandarius hibernicus V/ith. and Hart. = G. glandarius hibernicus. 

 Oarrulus glandarius hibernicus Witherby & Hartert, Brit. B. iv. p. 234 (1911— Irland). 



Type : Ad., County Wexford, Ireland, November 1910. From Williams & 

 Son (W. J. Williams) in Dublin. 



This is the most distinct one of the Irish subspecies hitherto separated. 

 There are now 28 skins in the Tring Museum and a good series in Witherby's 



