806 Messrs. Sclater and Mackworth-Praed on (Ibis, Cursorius temmincki.

Cursorius temmincki Swaims. Zool. Lllustr. 1. 1822, pl. 106: Senegal ; Reichw. V. A. i. p. 155.

This Courser has been recorded, under the name of Cursorius senegalensis, from Sennar and easterly Kordofan by Heuglin. We know of no recent occurrences.

Rhinoptilus chalcopterus chalcopterus.

Cursorius chalcopterus Temm. Pl. Col. livr. 50, 1824, pl. 298: Senegal.

Rhinoptilus chalcopterus Reichw. V. A. 1. p. 157; Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 400, 1908, p. 263.

[B. coll.] 2 Pongo River Mch. B.G. [C. & L. coll.] 2 White Nile lat. 9} N. long. 30° 40’ E, Feb. U.N. Neumann has separated the southern race cf this bird, owing to its alleged darker colour, as R. c. obscurus (O. M. 1910, p. 11). It appears to us to be separable only with great difficulty from Sudanese examples. Rhinoptilus albo-| fasciatus (Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. i. 18938, p. xiv: South Africa) we regard as the young of R. chalcopterus—at least all the examples of this form before us, whatever their locality, are immature birds.

Rhinoptilus cinctus cinctus.

Hemerodromus (Cursorius) cinctus Heugl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 25: Gondokoro.

Rhinoptilus cinctus cinctus Zedlitz, J.f. O. 1914, p. 624. This species has not apparently been obtained in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan since Heuglin’s time. Zedlitz (op.

cit.) has given a revision of the races.

Family Jacanip&, Actophilus africanus. Parra africana Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. pt. 2, 1789, p. 709: Africa, restricted type-locality, Abyssinia (¢c/. Claude Grant, Lois, 19155 piy59).

Actophilus africanus Reichw. V. A. i. p. 267.