1920.| the Birds of the Anglo-l-gyptian Sudan. 805 Family Cursortip#.

Ortyxelos meiffreni.

Turnix meiffrent Vieill. Nouv. Dict. xxxv. 1818, p. 49: Senegal.

Ortyxelos meiffreni Reichw. V. A. i. p. 162; Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 386. [ B. coll.] 1 El Obeid Mch. Kor. The specimens in the Museum from Senegal are hardly in sufficiently good order for comparison, but it may be worthy of remark that of five from the neighbourhood of Lake Chad, while no two of them are alike, all differ considerably from Kordofan examples.

Pluvianus egyptius.

Charadrius egyptius Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 150: Egypt.

Pluvianus egyptius Reichw. V. A.1. p. 150; Butler, Lbis, 1905, p. 899, 1908, p. 263.

[B. coll.] 1 Blue Nile Apl.; 1 Chak Chak Feb. B.G. [C. & L. coll.] 1 White Nile lat. 14° N. Jan. W.N. [Chr. coll.] 2 Wau July, Aug. B.G.

Cursorius gallicus gallicus.

Charadrius gallicus Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. pt. 2, 1789, p. 692: France.

Cursorius gallicus Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 400.

[B. coll.} 1 Shendi Mch. Ber. ; 6 Khartoum Jan. Feb. Nov., 1 Omdurman Apl. Kh. [C. & L. coll.] 1 nr. Sennar Jan. Sen.

These Coursers all seem indistinguishable from typical examples of C. g. gallicus, nor can we recognise C. gy. kordofanensis Wettstein, Anz. K. Akad. Wien, 1916, no. 18, p. 181: El Obeid, as being im any way distinct. The character of the yellow-washed chin and under tail-coverts seems to occur in many specimens from the shores of the Mediterranean, and, as a matter of fact, a single bird before us from Kl Obeid is somewhat light-coloured in those respects.