Birds from the IVIdte Nile. 457 



Lissotis melanogaster. 



British East Africa, Ravine, Mau (Johnston) ; Macliakos 

 {Hinde) ; Nyasaland [PVhite) ; Mozambique {Churchill) \ 

 Transvaal [Ayres) ; Durban [Gordge] ; Ambriz [Monteiro) ; 

 Accra [Buckley, Shelley, Smith, Ussher). 



Hah. British East Africa to South Africa, and tbence north- 

 wards on the West Coast to Angola, the Gold Coast, and 

 Senegambia. 



165. GEdicnemus senegalensis. 



(Edicnemus senegalefisis Svi^ains.; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 327 ; 

 Witherby,p. 277; N. C. Roths. & Wollast. p. 32 ; Gates, Cat. 

 Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. jip. 82, 363 (1902). 



a. ?. 20 miles N. of Fashoda, 19th March. No. 150. 



b. ^. Near Renk, 13th May. No. 471. 



Iris dark straw-coloured or yellow, granulated or veined witii 

 black on the outer edge ; orbits yellow ; bill black, greenish 

 yellow at the base ; legs and feet greenish grey or pale green. 



[The Senegal Thick-knee was not a very common bird. 

 We obtained a (dutch of two eggs about 20 miles to the north 

 of Fashoda.— R. M. H.] 



166. PlUVIANUS iEGYPTIUS. 



Pluvianus (Bgypiius (Linn.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 327 ; 

 Witherby, p. 278 ; N. C. Roths. & Wollast. p. 33 ; Gates, 

 Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. pp. 74, 361 (1902). 



fl. ? . 20 miles N. of Fashoda, 19th March. No. 145. 



h, c. $ % . Fashoda, 31st March. Nos. 259, 260. 



Iris dark hazel ; bill black ; legs and feet blue. 



[The Crocodile-bird was nowhere very numerous, but we 

 managed to obtain a clutch of eggs. I had searched one 

 small islet without finding any sign of them, and was 

 engaged in searching another, when Mr. Cheetham called to 

 me that he had found the eggs on the first islet. He had 

 watched the birds through a glass from some distance after 

 I had left, and had seen one of them scratch away the sand 

 and sit down, lie went to the place and found three eggs 

 under the sand, the bird having again covered them before 

 he got to the spot. — R. M. H.] 



