lO NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAB XXV. 1918, 



157. Cuiruca musica Brehm = Sylvia hortensis erassirostris. 

 Gurruca nrnsica Brehm, Vogelfung, p. 228 (1858— Sennaar) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1856, p. 455. 

 Type : $ ad. Bahr-el-Asrah, Sennaar, 14. ix. 1850. A. E. Brehm leg. 



158. Curruca brachyrhynchos Brehm = Sylvia borin horin. 



Curruea brachyrhynchos Brehm, Handh. Nat. Vog. Deutschl. p. 416 (1831—" Sie lebt einzeln in. 

 unsern Fiohtenwaldem "). 

 Type : S ad., " Renthendorf er Nadelholz, Jun. 1817." C. L. Brehm leg. 



159. Curruca nfericapilla Brehm = Sylvia atric. atricapilla. 



Curruca nigricapilla Brehm, Handb. Nat. Vog. Deutschl. p. .}17 (1831—" Sie bewohnt unsere Fioh- 

 tenwalder "). 

 Types : <J ? (pair), " Renthendorfer Nadelholz," 13. vi. 1830 (C. L. Brehm leg). 



160. Curruca superciliaris Brehm = Sylvia curruca curruca. 



Curruca superciliaris Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 228 (1855—" Wandert durch die Lausitz und das 

 Salzburgische "). 

 Type : <J Gorlitz in der Lausitz, 8. ix. 1828. Tobias leg. 



161. Curruca assimilis Brehm = Sylvia curruca curriica. 



Curruca assimilis Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 228 (1855 — Sennaar). 



Type : ? Blue Nile, Semiaar, xii. 1850. A. E. Brehm, leg. 



This specimen is very interesting. The white on the outermost rectrix 

 occupies the outer web, the tip and a broad Une along the shaft of the iimer web, 

 and is quite pure and sharply divided. Though this is most unusual, the speci- 

 men can hardly be anything else than a S. c. curruca. Another $, shot at the 

 same place and same time (also called assimilis on the label) has the white on 

 the inner web of the outermost tail-feather more restricted and somewhat 

 clouded with brown, as is usual in S. c. curruca. 



*(?) 162. Curruca obscura Brehm = Sylvia curruca obscura. 

 Curruca obscura Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 228 (1855 — Griechenland). 



Type : S ad., Attica, April 1845. A. Lindermayer leg. 



Cf . Reiser, Ornis Balcanica, iii. p. 164! 



The wing of this supposed (J is only 60 mm. long. From what Reiser said — 

 that the specimens in the Museum at Athens and one (J collected by Strimeneas 

 are very small (the latter wing 62 mm.) and that also eggs from Greece are rather 

 small — ^it would seem as if there was a specialised form in Greece, but he considers 

 that enough material has not yet been examined to establish the subspecies. 



163. Curruca luctuosa Brehm = Sylvia melanoc. melanocephala. 

 Curruca luctuosa Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 229 (Dalmation). 

 Type : S ad. Dalmatia, ] 2. v. 1829. 



