Of; NovitAtes Zoologioab XXV. 1918. 



of Germany. The coloration of the underside is always variable in Dippers ; 

 even of C. c. cinclus specimens are found occasionally with some rufous on the 

 breast. 



*184:. Cinclus meridionaliS Brehm = Cinclus cinclus meridionalis. 



Ginclas meridionalis Brehm, Nmimannia, 1856. p. 186 (Karnthen, von Guber coll.). 



Type: ? ad., Ressnig in Kar.ithen, 10. xi. 1834; von Guber leg. Prob- 

 ably this should be " von Hueber." Most Carinthian specimens in the collection 

 were collected by this gentleman, who is the author of a book on the birds of 

 Carinthia.* 



185. Cypselus fuscicollis Brehm = Apus melba africanus. f 

 Cypselus fuscicollis Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 45 (1855—" Afrika "). 

 Type : "5 vere, promontorium bonae spei." 



*186. Upupa major Brehm = Upupa epops major. 

 Upupa major Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 78 (1855— Egypt). 



Type: (J ad. (erroneously marked ?), Egypt, 16. iii. 1849. Baron von 

 Miiller's Expedition. A. E. Brehm leg. 



187. Alcedo pallida Brehm = Alcedo atthis atthis (L.). 



Alcedo -pallida A. E. Brehm, Journ. f. Orn. 1853. p. 454 t (Egypt) : C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 51 

 (1855). 



Type ; $ ad., Fua, Delta of the Nile, 27. x. 1849. A. E. Brehm leg. 



About the name of the European and Egyptian Kingfisher see Laubmann, 

 Verh. Orn. Ges. Bayern, xii. 4. p. 238 (1916). It is quite clear that Linnaeus, 

 Syst. Nat., ed. x. i. p. 109 (1758), under the name of Gracula Atthis, described the 

 Egyptian Kingfisher, ex " Hasselquist, iter 140, n. 20," where a full and unmis- 

 takable description is given. The North African form of our Kingfisher must 

 therefore be called : Alcedo atthis atthis (L.), and the European one : Alcedo atthis 

 ispida L. 



*188. Gecinus pinetorum Brehm = Picus viridis pinetorum. 



Geciiius jnnetorum Brehm, Handb. Naturg. Voj. Deutschl. p. 197 (1831 — " Bewohnt die deutschen 

 Fichtenwalder "). 



Type: <? ad., Renthendorf, 4. ii. 1816. C. L. Brehm leg. 



* The following correction must be made under Ghelidon ruatica rustica on p. 800 of Vog. pal. 

 Fauna : The name Cecropie ntabulorum Brehm was first pubUshed Isis, 1841. p. 132, and described 

 from Renthendorf and neighbourhood ; the author calls it " die gewohnlichste Schwalbe unserer 

 Gegend." To the synonyms must be added : 



Cecropis aedium Brehm, laia, 1841. p. 132 (Karnthen). No type of any of the names of Swal- 

 lows can be fixed with certainty in the Brehm Collection. 



t Cypselua murinua Brehm was first described, laia, 1840. p. 693, from specimens from Upper 

 Egypt, probably in the Berlin- Museum. The specimen from Siut, collected by A. E. Brehm in 

 1850, can therefore not be the type of the name murinua I 



X This is the first publication of th^ name ! 



