AVES = 



FRANCOLINTJS CLAPPERTONI GEDGII Grant. Uganda Clapperton Francolin 



These common savannah birds were one of our chief articles of 

 diet and hundreds were rapidly examined for ticks. The three spec- 

 imens found, all from Torit during the diy season, were a nymph of 

 A. nut t alii , another of A. cohaerens (identification questionable), 

 and a female H. hoodi hoodi . 



NUMIDA MELEAGRIS MAJOR Hartlaub. Uganda Tufted Guinea Fowl 



As many of these common savannah birds as of those mentioned 

 above were briefly examined with equally unspectacular results. 

 Only nymphs were found, all during the month of December. These 

 were one A. cohaerens (identification questionable) at Ikoto, five 

 A. variegattxm at Kapoeta, and one Hyalomma sp. at Torit. 



GUTTERA IPOUARDI SETHa-lITHI Neumann. Blue-spotted Forest Guinea Fowl 



These handsome birds are confined to forest patches and open 

 gallery forests and therefore very localized in the Sudan. The two 

 specimens examined in Lotti Forest in April yielded eleven larvae 

 and sixteen nymphs of H. par mat a . 



SPHEr^ORHYNGHUS ABDIMII (Lichtenstein) . Abdim«s Stork 



Of several specimens examined at Torit during the dry season, 

 one yielded two nymphs of H. hoodi hoodi and another two nymphs of 

 A. variegatum and a male rT s. sanguineus . Large flocks of Abdim's 

 "storks feed in durra fields Tn Torit District, but they appear to 

 be migrants or to have a wide range of feeding areas. 



^Domestic birds are listed with DCMESTIC ANIMALS. Bird identifica- 

 tions were provided by Dr. A. L. Rand, Chief Curator of Zoology, 

 Chicago Natural History Museum, who also kindly checked references 

 to birds mentioned elsewhere in the text. 



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