NOVITATBS ZOOLOGICAB XXV. 1918. XI 



In Vog. pal. Fauna, i. p. 77, I erroneously called the species flammea. In 

 an article in the Orn. Monatsber. 1907. p. 97, and in the " Inhalt " to vol. i. 

 of Vog. pal. Fauna, p. xviii., I have fuUy explained that this stupid error was 

 caused by a disturbance which led me to read Linnaeus' s next paragraph, instead 

 of the one relating to his Fringilla flammea. If writers now continue to call the 

 Redpoll Carduelis (or Acanthis or Linaria) flammea, the blame must fall on 

 them, as I cannot do more than correct my mistake and to use the right name. 



It is interesting to find that the Brehm Collection contains five undoubted 

 typical specimens of Carduelis linaria cabaret shot near Renthendorf in Novem- 

 ber 1822, November 1847, and January 1848. Manuscript names show that 

 old Brehm recognized their difference, but I carmot find the names in print. 



19. Pyrrhula minor Brehm * = Pyrrhula pyrrhula europaea. 

 "Pyrrhula minor Homeyer " " Brehm, Isis, 1834. p. 253 (Febr. 1833 bei Greifswald). 



Type : tJ ad., Greifswald, 16. ii. 1833. Received from E. F. von Homeyer. 



20. Corythus splendens Brehm = Pinicola enucleator leucura. 

 Corythus splendens Brehm, Isis, 1840. p. 590 (North America). 



Type ; <J ad. Nordamerika, Jan. 1833. 



The A.O.U. Check-hst of 1910 accepted the name leucura [Loxia leucura 

 Miiller, Natmrsystem, Suppl. p. 150 (1776 — ex Buff on), but I consider this some- 

 what daring, as the " white rump " does not exist in this species ; it might 

 have slipped in on account of P. L. S. MiiUer's colour-blindness, but the figure 

 of Daubenton, which was MiiUer's source, does not show the rump-feathers at 

 all. If leucura is rejected, Brehm's name splendens could be used, as it antedates 

 Cabani's canadensis by eight years. 



21. Crucirostra major Brehm = Loxia pytyopsittacus. 



Grucirostra major Brehm, Naumannia, 1853. p. 181, 182 (Winter 1847 — 1848). (This is the correct 

 quotation.) 



Type: cj, shot with its paired female by one of C. L. Brehm's sons, 



27. xii. 1847, Rodatal. In Naumannia is said that this pair was shot on 



28. xii. 1847. The label, not in C. L. Brehm's, but perhaps Oskar Brehm's 

 handwriting, says 27. xii. 



(The name major is, of course, antedated by pytyopsittacus, moreover 

 Billberg named the species Loxia major, p. 18 of his Fauna Scand. 1828. This 

 quotation should be added to my fist of synonyms, p. 122 of Vog. pal. Fauna.) 



Crucirostra subpytiopsittacns Brehm = Loxia pytyopsittacus. 



In Vog. pal. Fauna, i. p. 122, I quoted as first description, Handb. Nat. Vog. 

 Deutschl. p. 242, but it had appeared already in Isis, 1827. p. 706-710, with a 

 much fuller description. Unfortunately the type does not exist in the collection. 

 The author mentioned eight specimens in his collection, shot in the woods about 



* This synonym has hitherto been overlooked, 1 believe, by all compilers of lists of synonyms ! 

 It must be added to the names on p. 94 of Vog. pal. Fauna. 



On p. 106 must be added to the synonyms of Carpodacus erythrinua erythrinus : Erythrothorax 

 medius, Seyffertitz and Brehm, Isis, 1833. p. 782 (Ahlsdorf). This name, too, is new to the lists 

 of synonyms. The type is not in the Brehm Collection. 



