26 NOVITATES ZOOLOOHCAE XXV. 1918. 



112. MotaciUa fasciata Brehm = Motacilla alba alba.* 



Mota^Ula fasciata Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 143 (1855 — Galicia). 



Type: <J ad., Galicia, 21,iii. 1852. Count Wodzicki leg. 



113. Certhia familiaris pusilla Brehm = Certhia familiaris macrodactyla. 



Certhia familiaris pusilla Brehm, Naumannia, 1856. p. 3(58 (Dalmatia and Renthendorf). 



Type : $ Dalmatia, 15. x. 1830. 



The only other specimen is a $ shot at Renthendorf, 20. xi. 1820. Both 

 are small specimens, but otherwise typical macrodactyla. 



114. Certhia lufidorsalis Brehm. 



drthia rufidorsalis Brehm, Naumannia, 1856. p. 359 (only one specimen from Witten). 



Type: " <? pnmo auctumno, Witten a. d. Ruhr, 30. ix. 1830." F. W. 

 Badeker coll. 



This specimen is a remarkable bird, with a very deep rust-red back and 

 rump, more so than in C. familiaris brittanica Ridgw., but otherwise with the 

 characteristics of C. brachydactyla. It is not a form of C. familiaris, but must be 

 an aberrant brachydactyla, as we cannot assume that a third species exists near 

 Witten, together with C. familiaris and brachydactyla. 



*115. Certhia brachydactyla Brehm = C. brachydactyla brachydactyla^ 



Certhia brachydactyla Brehm, Beitr. z. Vogdkunde, i. pp. 570. 579 (1820 — " Rodatal"). 



Type : <? perad., Renthendorf, 29. xii. 1816. C. L. Brehm leg. 



The specimen is marked " Das Urexemplar zur Beschreibuiig." On the 

 label it is called Certhia megarhynchos, but is no doubt the type of brachydactyla. 

 Probably it is also the type of C. megarhynchos Brehm, Handb. Naturg. Vog. 

 Deutschl. p. 211 (1831 — Westfalen, once near Renthendorf). In 1831 Brehm 

 evidently spht up his brachydactyla into brachydactyla and megarhyncha. 



116. Certhia paradoxa Brehm = Certhia brachydactyla brachydactyla. 



Certhia paradoxa Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 76 (1855 — " Verirrt sich aus Ungarn sehr selten nach 

 Deutsohland "). 



Type; ? ad., Hungary, 7. v. 1840. (? Petenyi coll.). 



117, Sitta advena Brehm = Sitta europaea caesia. 



Sitta advena Brehm, Handb. Naturg. Vog. Deutschl. p. 2 (1831 — " Zeigt sich nur zuweilen in den 

 Waldern des mittleren Deutsohlands "). 



Type: ? Renthendorf, 12.vii. 1815. C. L. Brehm leg. 

 Described from exceptionally pale, partially juveriile, specimens. 



• To the synonyms must be added : Mot. cermcalis and pratorum Brehm, Isia, 1837. p. 740 

 {Nomina nuda), and it should be noted that Mot. cervicaUe was first described in Isia, 1848. p. 501, 

 from specimana collected near Renthendorf. About these varieties cf. Vdg. pal. Fauna, p. 303. 



