1922. | Collection of Birds made in the Sudan. TOL Gallinula angulata Sundevall. The specimen mentioned, page 825, is in our Museum at Giza.

Columba livia schimperi Bonaparte. I consider that it is quite impossible to assign any name to the Pigeon of the Nile Valley between Cairo and Aswan. Pigeons have been kept in a semi-domesticated state for so long in Egypt that it is now almost impossible to shoot two similar birds from the same flock. Although many apparently pure coloured “ schimperi”? may be obtained, | have several similar examples but with pure white “buffer” bands on the back. One may also get featherfooted birds, white, black, pied and red, and chequers, from the same flock. These facts surely speak for themselves.

Coturnix coturnix coturnix (Linnzeus). In my ‘ Handlist’ I wrongly, as I now consider, included C. ¢. capensis among the birds of Egypt on the strength of red-throated specimens. Last year (1920) I purchased a great many living Quail, all the males of which were carefully examined, and all were found to be quite typical C. ¢. coturniv as'regards the coloration of the throat. I now find (July 1921) that many of these males have assumed deep brick-red throats. It, therefore, seenmis probable that the Quail, in this country, assumes a red throat in summer.

Ammoperdix heyi cholmleyi O.-Grant. I have examined the specimen obtained by Mr. F. 8S. Worthington at Aswan (p. 847), and entirely agree with the authors as to its being cholmleyi. (Since I published my ‘Handlist? I have received a fine pair of adult Ah. nicolli, shot by 'T. W. Russell Pasha, two days’ march south of Assuit. This is the farthest south i lave yet received evidence of its occurrence.) In the next edition of my list I shall therefore include A. h. cholmleyi. We have yet to learn where the two forms meet.

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