NOVITATES ZOOIOGICAE XXV. 1918. 7 



alone, the arrangement adopted in my Vog. d, pal. Fauna, beginning with the 

 Passeres instead of the Gallinae. 



Valid specific or subspecific names are marked with an *. 



1. Corvns sylvestris Brehm = C. corax corax L. 



Corvus sylvestris Brehm, Handb. Naturg. Vog. Devtschl. p. 163 (1831—" Br bewohnt die Walder, 

 Ebenen oder die Vorholzer gebirgiger Gegenden Deutschlands.") 



Type: 3 ad., Renthendorf, 15. v. 1817. C. L. Brehm leg. On the label: 

 " Corax communis sylvestris. Par unicum regionis. Vere cum femina con- 



junctus." Cf. NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAB, 1901. p. 40. 



2. Corvus montanus Brehm = C. corax corax L. 



Corvus montanvs Brehm, Handb. Naturg. V6g. DeutscM. p. 165 (1831—" Er bewohnt die deutschen 

 Alpen, z. B. die tyroler"). 



Type: ? annua, Tirdl, 10. v. 1827. On the label: Corax communis mon- 

 tanus. 



3. Corvns littoralis Brehm = C. corax corax L. 



Corvus littoralis Brehm, HanZh. Naturg. Vog. DeutscM. p. 164 (1831 — " Er bewohnt die nordliohen 

 Seekiisten unaeres Vaterlandes ") . 



Type : S ad., Riigen, 20. i. 1826. On the label : Corax communis littoralis. 

 Specimen probably collected by Schilling, who about that time visited Pom- 

 merania and Riigen to collect for Brehm. See remarks about the misuse of 

 the name littoralis, Novitates Zoologicab, 1901. p. 42. 



4. Corvus peregrinus Brehm = C. corax corax L. 



Corvus peregrinus Brehm, Handb. Naturg. Vog. DeutscM. p. 164 (1831 — " Er gehort unserm Vater- 

 lande nicht an, sondern verirrt sich nur im Winter zuweilen und auf unregelmassigen Ziigen in 

 dasselbe."). 



Type: 3 ad., Renthendorf, 10. i. 1818. C. L. Brehm leg. Cf. Novitates 

 ZOOLOGICAE, 1901. p. 40. 



5. Corvus brachyurus A. E. Brehm = C afflnis Riipp. 

 Corvus brachyurus A. E. Brehm, Journ. of Dm. 1854. p. 75 (" Aegypten "). 



Type: S ad., Luxor, 12. x. 1857. A. E. Brehm leg. The description, 

 which was looked upon as only a preliminary notice, is very poor, only the short, 

 broad tail and different habits being mentioned. That this specimen is the 

 type is certain, as Brehm specially said that he obtained only one example. 



This specimen is also the type of : 



Corvus brachyrhynchus Alfr. Brm. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 414 (1855 — " Er 

 wird sich aus Nordostafrika nach Europa verirren"). 



Probably brachyrhynchvs is only a sUp for brachyurus, as the bird is called 

 " der kurzschwanzige Rabe." The distinctness of this bird from all other 

 Ravens was at once noticed by A. E. and C. L. Brehm ; the latter wrote on the 

 label : " Corax brachyurus, species distincta." Neither of them were aware at 

 the time that Riippell had already well described the species as Corvus affinis, 

 nineteen years before. Want of knowledge of literature was one of the great 



