1920.|] the Birds of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 783 [ B. coll.] 1 Port Sudan May, B.S. [C. & L. coll.] 2 Port Sudan Apl. B.S. We have not sufficient material to enter into the races of this bird. The Brown Booby ranges throughout the tropical and subtropical sseas, the form occurring on the Australian coasts being referred to S. /. plotus (Forster) by Mathews.

Sula (Parasula) dactylatra melanops.

Sula melanops Heuglin, Ibis, 1859, p. 351 : Somali coast. No actual records are known to us from the Sudan, but in all probability the bird occurs on the coast of the Red Sea as well.

Family ANHINGIDA. Anhinga rufa.

Plotus rufus Lacépede & Daud. in Buff. Hist. Nat. (18mo, ed. Didot), Quad. xiv. p. 819; Ois. xvii. 1799, p. 81: Senegal; Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 381.

Anhinga rufa Reichw. V. A.1. p. 95.

[B. coll.] 1 Jebelein Apl. U.N. ; 1 Bor May, Mon. [C. & L. coll.] 1 Melut, 1 Meshra Zeraf Jan. U.N.

Found on most of the rivers throughout the country.

Family PHALACROCORACIDA.

Phalacrocorax carbo subsp. ? Phalacrocorax carbo Reichw. V. A. 1. p. 90.

[B. coll.] 1 Khartoum Nov.

This specimen is an immature female of what is apparently the common European Cormorant P. ¢. subcormoranus (Brehm), but we should not lke to be certain as_ to subspecies. ‘The only previous record we know of from the Sudan is one by Brehm from Sennar.

Microcarbo africanus.

Pelecanus africanus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1. pt. 2, 1789, p. 577: White Nile (cf. Claude Grant, Ibis, 1915, p. 75).

Phalacrocoraxz africanus Reichw. V. A. 1. p. 93; Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 381.

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