688 Mr. M. J. Nicoll‘on a [ Ibis, XXXVIT.—On a Collection of Birds made in the Sudan by Major S. S. Flower, O.B.E., in December 1920 and January and February 1921; and some remarks on “A List of the Birds of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan” by W. L. Sclater and C. Mackworth Praed. By M. J. Nicotz, M.B.O.U.

THE following paper is based on a small collection of birds made by Major 8. 8. Flower during a visit to the Sudan in December 1920, January and February 1921, and which has been placed in my hands for determination and _ reporting on.

I have taken the present opportunity to add to this account a few remarks on some Sudan birds other than those contained in the collection under review but mentioned by Messrs. Sclater & Praed in their paper recently published in ‘The Ibis.’

In the present collection one new race is represented, 1. e. Galerida cristata halfe, which I have already described in the Bull. B.O.C. vol. xlii, p. 7. The type of this form and one other example are now in the Tring Museum, the remainder of the collection is in the Giza Zoological Museum.

The specimens of Pycnonotus barbatus arsinoé from Halla and the examples of J/oplopterus spinosus from different localities in the Sudan are worthy of further examination when a larger series is available.

(nanthe isabellina (Cretzschmar). 1g. Um Ruaba, Kordofan; ¢. Singa, Blue Nile; o. Kabashia, Berber; 2 2. Halfa. Dec. 1920, Jan. Feb. 1921. Tt is interesting to note that all these examples are of the brown phase, or race, and unlike all the other specimens in the Giza Museum from the Sudan, which are very grey on the upper parts.

(nanthe enanthe cenanthe.

3 ¢. Um Ruaba, Kordofan, Dec. 1920. @. Singa, Jan. 1921.