14 . NOVITATES ZOOLOGlOAE XXV. 1918. 



31. Montifringilla glacialis Brehm = Mordifringilla nivalis nivalis (L.). 



Monti fringilla glacialis Brehm, Handb. Naturg. Vog. Devtschl. p. 270 (1831 — " Alpen Tyrols "). 



Type : cj ad., Tirol, 12. i. 1828. 



Brehm distinguished between the Snow Finch of Switzerland and that 

 of Tirol, but there is no foundation for this. 



32. Petronia alb^ularis Brehm = Petronia dentata dentata (Sund.). 

 Petronia alhigularis Brehm, Naumannia, 1856. p. 377 ("Sennaar"). 



Type : $ Blue Nile, Sennaar, 22. ix. 1850, A. E. Brehm leg. 



33. Petronia saxorum Brehm = Petronia petronia -petronia* 

 Petronia saxorum Brehm, Vogdfang, p. 97 (Saaletal). 



Type : <J ad., with paired ?, Lobeda near Jena, 10. xii. 1826. 



The Rock-Sparrow must have been fairly common near Jena. There are 

 12 specimens from Lobeda and oi^e from Wolmse near Jena, including young 

 birds from the nest, shot in 1816, 1819, 1826, 1828, 1852. 



■34. Pyrgita rupestris Brehm = Petronia petronia petronia. 



Pyrgita rupestris Brehm, Handb. Natwrg. Vog. Devtschl. p. 264 (1831 — " Er lebt nur in manchen 

 Jahren ia Saalthale iind brutet selten daselbst "). 



Type : $ taken from nest on the Lobedaburg near Jena, 15. vi. 1816, died 

 in cage, 10.x. 1816. 



* 35. PetroQia macrorhynchos Brehm = Petronia petronia macrorhynchos. 

 Petronia macrorhynchos Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 927 (" Griechenland "). 



Type : " S ad., vere 1847, Griechenland." 



According to Fenk {Orn. Monatsber. 1914. p. 85) the Rock-Sparrow of 

 the Balkan Peninsula must be separated, as having generally a lighter colora- 

 tion and longer bill. 



36. Pyrgita valida Brehm = Passer domesticus domesticus. 

 Pyrgita valida Brehm, Isis, 1842. p. 887 t (" Dalmatien "). 

 Type : S Dalmatia, 24. iii. 1830. 



37. Pyrgita brachyrhynchos Brehm = Passer domesticus domesticus. 



Pyrgita brachyrhynchos Brehmj Isis, 1842. p. 890 (" Diese subspecies lebt in Dalmatien und Karn- 

 ' then"). 



Type : " <? vere, Dalmatien." 



* To the BjmonymB in Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 142, must be added : 



Pyrgita saxatiUa Btehm, Handb. Nat. V6g. Deutschl. p. 1012 (1831 — Kamthen. Typo not in 

 collection). 



f This is the first publication, not 1855, as quoted in Vog. pal. Fauna, i. p. 147. 



The same is to be said about Pyrgita brachyrhynchos (vide supra), and Pyrgita intercedens , which 

 was first described in Isis, 1842. p. 891. 



Pyrgita macrorhynchos Brehm, a name which I quoted as a nomen nudum of A. E. Brehm, has 

 been fully described by C. L. Brehm, Isia, 1842. p. 887, from specimens from Hungary and Renthen- 

 dorf. 



