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

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. 695 Streptopelia senegalensis sudanensis Sclater & Praed. A pair from Halfa, Feb. 1921. Senegal Doves from Halfa, Berber, and Dongola are distinetly paler than birds from Rejaf. Examples from the Blue -Nile are intermediate. With the small amount of material at my disposal I have provisionally followed Sclater and Praed in calling the Halfa birds sudanensis.

Streptopelia turtur isabellina (Bonaparte). A male and five living examples from Halfa, Feb. 1921. I have one other Sudan specimen from Blue Nile Province obtained 1.xi.10, where it is not uncommon in winter.

Oue of the living birds is a young bird in first plumage. I cannot separate Sudanese specimens from Hgyptian breeding birds.

Streptopelia decipiens decipiens Finsch & Hartl. 1 o. Kabashia, Berber, Dec. 1920. This example is paler on the back than examples in the Giza Museum from the Blue and White Niles.

(Ena capensis (Linnzus).

3d. Um Ruaba, Kordofan, Dec. 1920. This single example is strikingly greyer on the upper yarts than are four males in the Giza Museum from Khar-I toum and the White Nile.

Coturnix coturnix coturnix (Linnzeus).

é. Halfa, Feb. 1921.

Pterocles senegallus (Linnzeus).

¢. Khartoum, Jan. 1921.

Pterocles senegalensis senegalensis (Lichtenstein).

Pterocles exustus auctorum. 28,32. Kabashia, Berber, Dec. 1920. 192. Khartoum, Jan. 1921.

Sarkidiornis melanotus africanus Nyton.

2 g. Singa, Jan. 1921.

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