XXXI.–A List hf the Birds of the Anglo‐Egyptian Sudan, based on the Collections of Mr. A. L. Butler, Mr. A. Chapman and Capt,. H. Lynes, R.N., and Major Cuth‐bert Christy, R.A.M.C. (T.F.). Part IV. (concluded). Pelecanidæ–Struthionidæ — 16/76

XXXI.–A List hf the Birds of the Anglo‐Egyptian Sudan, based on the Collections of Mr. A. L. Butler, Mr. A. Chapman and Capt,. H. Lynes, R.N., and Major Cuth‐bert Christy, R.A.M.C. (T.F.). Part IV. (concluded). Pelecanidæ–Struthionidæ

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796 Messrs. Sclater and Mackworth-Praed on | Lbis, Family PLecapip”.

Plegadis falcinellus. Tantalus falcinellus Linn. Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i. 1766, p. 241: Habitat in Austria, Italia.

Plegadis falcinellus Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 372. Plegadis autumnalis apud Reichw. V. A. 1. p. 829.

[C. & L. coll.] 1 Meshra Zeraf Jan. U.N.

Threskiornis ethiopica.

Tantalus ethiopicus Lath. Ind. Orn. 1796, p. 706: LKthiopia.

Ibis ethiopica Reichw. V. A.i. p. 821 ; Butler, Ibis, 1905, p- 371, 1908, p. 254.

[B. coll.] 2 Malakal May, U.N. [C. & L. coll.] 1 40 miles south of Jebelein, U.N.

Comatibis eremita.

Upupa eremita Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 118: Switzerland.

Geronticus eremita Reichw. V. A. 1. p. 3823. Not common ; there is a specimen in the Musenm from Suakin collected by Penton, and it is recorded from the Blue Nile by Flower.

Hagedashia hagedash nilotica.

Hagedashia hagedash nilotica Neum. Ornis, xii. 1909, p. 193: nr. Adis Abeba, Abyssinia.

Theristicus hagedash (iath.); Reichw. V. A. i. p. 3825.

Geronticus hagedash (Lath.) ; Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 372, 1908, p. 254, 1909, p. 89.

[B. coll.] 1 Malakal May, 1 Upper Nile “summer,” 1 Lake No May, U.N. ; 1 Raffali Feb. B.G. [C. & L. coll.] 1 Senga Dec. Sen. ; 1 nr. Jebelein Jan., 1 Lake No Feb. U.N.

For a list of the races of the Hagedash Ibis, see Neumann, op. cit., and Zedlitz, J. f. O. 1914, p. 640,

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