18 NOVITATKS ZOOLOGICAB XXV. 1918. 



56. Melanocorypha itala Brehm = Caldndrella brachydactyla brachydactyla. 



Melanocorypha itala Brehm, Isis. 1830, pp. 786. 792 (Sardinien).* 



X^e : End of July 182-, Sardinia. Evidently a cage-bird received from 

 Graf Gourcy-Droitaumont, who had got it from Sardinia. 



57. Melanocoryhpa graeca Brehm = Calandrella brachydactyla brachydactyla. 



Mdanocorypha graeca Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 121 (1855 — " Grieohenland bis Sennaar "). 

 Type : <3 ad., Attica, April 1845. 



58. Melanocorypha tenmrostris Brehm = Calandrella brachydactyla 



brachydactyla. 



Melanocorypha tenuirostris Brehm, Isis, 1845. p. 346 (no locality) ; Vogelfang, p. 121 (1855 — "In 

 Grieohenland und bei Triest "). 



Tj^e: (J ad., Attica, April 1845. Probably coll. by Lindermayer. 



59. Melanocorypha gallica Brehm = Calandrella brachydactyla brachydactyla. 

 Melanocorypha gallica Brehm, Isis, 1845. p. 345 (" Siid-Frankreich, namentlich bei Montpellier.") 

 Type : $ ad., MontpeUier, iv. 1829. 



60. Alauda macroptera A. E. Brehm = Calandrella brachydactyla brachydactyla. 

 Alauda {Melanocorypha) macroptera A. E. Brehm, Journ. f. Orn. 1854. p. 77 (N.E. Africa). 



Type : ? ad., Edfu, between Esneh and Assuan, Egypt, 19. iii. 1850. A. E. 

 Brehm leg. 



61. Melanocorypha brachydactyla immaculata A. E. Brehm = Calandrella 

 brachydactyla brachydactyla. 



Melanocorypha brachydactyla immaculata A. E. Brehm, Allg. D. Naturh. Zeit. 1857. p. 455 f (" Bei 

 Murcia und Madrid'"). 



Type: Murcia 24. viii. 1856. A. E. Brehm leg. 



The specimen has rather small dark patches on the sides of the jugulum, 

 but this is not peculiar to Spanish birds, but merely an individual character. 



*62. Melanocorypha Apetzii A. E. Brehm = Calandrella minor apetzii. 

 Melanocorypha Apetzii A. E. Brehm, Allg. D. Naturh. Zeit. 1857. p. 455 (Murcia). 



Type : ? ad., Murcia, 23. viii. 1856. A. E. Brehm leg. 



The single specimen shot by Brehm. This is, of course, the bird known for 

 some time as Calandrella baetica Dress. Cf. Vog. pal. Fauna, pp. 218. xxv. note 2, 



63. Melanocorypha galeritaria Brehm = Ammomanes deserti deserti. 

 Melanocorypha galeritaria Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 122 (1855 — " Nordost-Afrika "). 



Type : 3, summer, in moult. " Nordost-Afrika." 



• This is the earliest appearance of the name itala 1 



f This is the first quotation, and must be substituted for that given in V6g. pal. Fauna, p. 2 IS. 



