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118. Sitta caesia minor A. E. Brehm = Sitlct europaea hispaniensis. 



Siita caesia minor (rieo 8. minor Bechst !) A. E. Brehm, Allg. D. Naturh. Zeitung, 1857. p. 447 

 (Spain). 



Type : <? ad., Pardo near Madrid, 14. ii. 1857. A. E. Brehm leg. 



Evidently the Spanish Nuthatch is a good, recognisable subspecies. Pyre- 

 naean specimens resemble the British race in their pale underside, thus also 

 the Spanish one ; but a better series should be compared. 



119. Paras intercedens Brehm = Parus major major. 



Parns intercedens Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 241 (1855 — " Mitteldeutschland ") ; Naumcmnia, 1856. 

 p. 368. 



Type: <? Greiz, 19. x. 1819. Oberlander leg. On the back of the label: 

 " Nova species a nobis detecta." 



120. Parus pallidus Brehm —Parus major major (aberr.). 



Parus 'pallidus Brehm, Naumannia, 1856. p. 367 (Description of a pale specimen, which the author 

 formerly mistook for hohhareTisis). 



Type ; ? ad., Greiz, 24. x, 1834. Oberlander leg. 



This is a remarkably pale variety ; the back is ashy grey, with a hardly 

 perceptible faint greenish hue, the underside almost white. It thus looks indeed 

 very much like a P. major bokharensis, but is, of course, an aberrant P. major 

 major. The type of P. intercedens is also a pale example, but similarly pale and 

 even paler specimens are found occasionally elsewhere in Germany, France, Italy, 

 Spain, and in England and Morocco. 



121. Parus melanothorax Olphe-GaUiard = Parus cinctv^ cinctus. 

 Parus m£,anothorax Olphe-Galliard ex Brehm MS., Orn. Jahrb. 1892. p. 137 (Norway). 



Type; " <? transitu a veste juven. ad vestem perfectam, Norge, lO.viii. 

 1860." A. E. Brehm leg. 



*122. Paras lagens Brehm = Parus lugubris lugens. 



Parus lugens Brehm, Vogdfang, p. 243 (1855— ;-Greeee). 



Type: cJ Attica, 1844. A. Lindermayer leg. 



(See Brehm, Isis, 1845. p. 331 ; Reiser, Ornis Balcanica, iii. p. 176 ; 

 Hartert, V^. pal. Fauna, p. 368.) 



*123. Paras stagnatilis Brehm = Partis palustris stagnatilis. 



Parus stagnatilis Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 242 (1855 — Galicia). 



Type: <? ad.. East Galicia, 3, i. 1853, Graf Wodzicki leg. (Cf. Klein- 

 schmidt, Orn. Jahrb. 1897, p. 69.) 



124. Paras subpalastris Brehm = Parus palustris communis, 



IS mbpalustris Brehm, Vogdfang, p. 242 (1855 — " Deutschland." All specimens in 

 tion from Renthendorf, terra typica therefore : Renthendorf ). 



Types : A paired pair, Renthendorf, 4.i. 1851. C. L. Brehm leg. 



