PHILLIPS: BIRDS FROM THE SUDAN. 13 



Caprimulgas aegyptius Lichtenstein. 



3 cf 's and 3 9 's, Magangani, Blue-Nile, 25 Jan., 26 Jan., 27 Jan., 

 29 Jan., 31 Jan.; Roseires, 13 Jan. 



This may be C. a. saharae Erlanger, the paler resident African race, 

 but no material is at hand for comparison. 



Common over the high grass at dusk. In large areas of elephant 

 grass they were very numerous. Dr. Allen found ground crickets 

 and cockroaches in the stomach of one of these birds which was shot 

 early in the evening. 



Caprimulgus eleanorae Phillips. 

 Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 1913, 26, p. 167. 



Type, adult 9 ^I. C. Z. No. 63,436, taken at Fazogli, Blue-Nile, 

 Sudan, 15 Jan., 1913. 



Description. — Most nearly like C. monticola of India, of which it 

 appears to be the African representative. In general color very much 

 like the gray examples of C. monticola, but at once distinguished by the 

 spots on the three outer primaries, being small and round and confined 

 wholly to the inner web, instead of being large and extending across 

 both webs of 2d, 3d, and 4th primaries. In the new species the spot 

 on the first primary is only 7 mm. in diameter, while on the third 

 primary it is about 12 mm. Wing, 185 mm.; culmen to base of fore- 

 head, 28 mm.; exposed culmen, 11 mm.; tarsus, 20 mm. The char- 

 acters of the male are unknown. 



Remarks.— This species differs from all African species of somewhat 

 similar general coloration by its much larger size, equal in fact to C. 

 monticola. 



Only one specimen was taken. 



MiCROPODIDAE. 



Tachorxis PARVUS PARVUS (Lichtenstein). 



1 d^, Roseires, Blue-Nile, 13 Jan. 



Common along rivers, especially about deleb palm trees. 



