XXXVTI.— 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 — 10/22

XXXVTI.— 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

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1922, | Collection of Birds made in the Sudan. 697 in winter, in Egypt at any rate, adults of this species, C. hiaticula tundre, and C. alevandrinus have the collar and frontal band replaced by brown.

True adults of the last-named assume, after the autumn moult, a bright chestnut crown to the head.

Erolia minuta minuta (Leisler).

6. Um Ruaba, Kordofan, Dec. 1920. @. Sennar, Jan. LOPE Chettusia leucura (Lichtenstein).

?. Um Ruaba, Kordofan, Dec. 1920.

Pluvianus egyptius (Linnzeus).

1 g. Sennar, Jan. 1921. 2 9. Singa, Jan. 1921.

Sarciophorus tectus Boddaert.

3d. Um Ruaba, Kordofan, Dec. 1920.

Hoplopterus spinosus (Linnzus). 4,3 2. Kordofan, Berber, and Blue Nile, Dec. 1920 and Jan. 1921.

Sudan examples are darker on the upper parts, and have consistently shorter wings than our Keyptian examples in the Giza Museum.

(Edicnemus senegalensis Swainson.

1¢,22. Singa, Jan. 1921. Birds from the Blue and White Niles in our collection at Giza are slightly smaller in the wing than Egyptian birds. I could not, however, separate the latter on comparing them with a large series at Tring.

Machetes pugnax (Linnzeus).

2-2... Singa, Jan. LOZ1.

Tringa hypoleuca Linnzeus.

Seven. Singa and Sennar, Jan. 1921.

Tringa glareola Linnzeus.

2. Sennar, Jan. 1921.

Tringa ocrophus Linnzeus.

2. Sennar, Jan, 1921,

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