62 Mr. C. II. B. Grant on a Collection of 



Rhinoptilus africanus hartingi Shar[)e. 

 Rhinoptilus hartinqi Shai'pe, Bull. B, O. C. iii. 1893, 

 p. xiv : Somaliland. 



A small rufous race. Wing : 145-130 mm. 

 Range. Somaliland. 



61. Rhinoptilus cinctus cinctus. Heuglin's Courser. 

 Cursorius cinctus Heugl. Sitzb. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



xix. 1856, p. 255 : Bahr el Abiad, i. e. White Nile. 



In 'The Ibis' for 1863, p. 31, pi. i., Heuglin describes this 

 bird under the genus Henierodromus and gives the type- 

 locality as Gondokoro, White Nile. 



a. S ad. N'gal)otok, Turkwel River, 2200 ft. Jan. 10. 



Total length in flesh : 9| inches. Wing : 157 mm. 



In good clean dress and still moulting slightly. 



[Irides brown ; bill black, base yellow ; legs and toes 

 bluish flesh. Several seen in dry desert country, standing 

 beneath "wait-a-bit'' thorn bushes for shade.] 



62. (Edicnemus senegalensis. Senegal Thick-knee. 

 CEdicnemus senegalensis Swains. Birds W. Afr. ii. 1837, 



p. 228 : Senegal. 



a, ^ iram. Lake Hannington, 3700 ft. Dec. 25. 



b. ? ad. Kittigom, Chua Dist., 2850 ft. Feb. 21. 

 Total length in flesh: 16 inches. Wing: ad. 210 mm.; 



imm. 207 mm. 



The adult is quite worn, but is not yet moulting. The 

 immature is generally much more sandy in colour than the 

 adult. 



[Irides yellow, eyelids yellow ; bill black, base yellow, 

 base yellowish green in immature ; legs and toes yellowish 

 grey, diity yellow in immature. Several seen ] 



63. (Edicnemus capensis capensis. South African Thick- 

 knee. 



(Edicnemus capensis Licht. Verz. Doubl. 1823, p. 69 : 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



a. ? ad. Loita, 6300 ft. Nov. 26. 



Total length in flesh : 16| inches. Wing : 227 ram. 



