668 Col. R. Melnertzhagen 07i Birds from [Ibis, 



is abundant. A common winter visitor to the Sudan and 

 Abyssinia from December to May. Fairly common in Kenya 

 Colony and Uganda in winter, especially on the Victoria 

 Nyanza from January to early April ; but other birds arrive 

 about the end of October, for I saw a small flock at Entebbe 

 on 20.x. and several at Naivasha and Nakuru in late October. 

 I have seen two winter birds from northern Somaliland. 



Not observed on the coast of eastern Africa or at Nairobi 

 in 1915 or 1916. 



South of the Victoria Nyanza they do not seem to go, but 

 Ayres {teste Gurney) obtained one in the Transvaal. 



Birds appear to begin to leave the tropics in late March 

 and the Sudan in late April. They are abundnnt on spring 

 passage in the Fayoum and Wadi Natrun, but very rare in 

 the Egyptian Delta. 



A few pass north through Palestine in late March, and they 

 have been shot in Sinai on 29. iii., and have been reported as 

 plentiful from 12. iv. to 18. iv. 



They breed just east of Aleppo in northern Syria, nine 

 nests being found. 



Flocks passed through Crete from 27. iii. to 9. iv. 

 {L^nes). 



Both yellow- and white-eye striped varieties have been 

 obtained in Egypt and the Sudan. 



Motacilla f. melanogriseus (Hom.). 



No Palestine record. Two obtained by Butler in December 

 and March at Khartoum^ and there are others in the Brehm 

 Collection at Tring from Egypt and the Sudan. 



Nicoll (Hand-list Birds of Egypt) records it as a rare 

 spring visitor, but gives no further details. 



No record for eastern Africa. 



I have seen a bird from northern Somaliland collected by 

 Archer on 31. iii. 



Lanius senator niloticus (Bp.). 



A scarce winter visitor to Kenya Colony, a pair being 

 obtained in the Maragoli Hills on 10. i. 



