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it is a more shy and less conspicuous bird here than when 

 in its northern breeding-grounds. 



104. Lusciola golzi (Cab.). 



a. <$ . Khartoum, Sept. 1901. 



Persian Nightingales arrive at Khartoum in considerable 

 numbers in September, but, after resting for a week or 

 two in the lime-gardens, continue their journey south, and 

 do not reappear until they pass through again in the spring. 

 At the time of their actual arrival I have usually been absent 

 on leave, but on my return to Khartoum on Sept. 17th, 

 1901, Sept. 12th, 1902, and Sept. oth, 1904, they were to 

 be found in every garden in the town. They are exceedingly 

 tame birds, keeping principally to the ground, and hopping 

 away under cover rather than flying when approached. They 

 have a harsh " churring " alarm-note. Judging from the 

 number of their feathers seen lying about, they fall very 

 frequent victims to cats. 



105. Cyanecula suecica (Linn.). 

 a. ? . Kaka, Feb. 24, 1902. 



In February 1902 I noticed a considerable number of Blue- 

 throated Warblers frequenting the high grass in a swampy 

 khor at Kaka on the White Nile. I also noted the bird at 

 Khartoum on the 14th of September, 1901. It is in the 

 irrigated land of Egypt that the main body of these migrants 

 pass the winter, and in the Soudan they are, comparatively 

 speaking, only stragglers. 



106. Turdus torquatus Linn. 

 a. $ . Khartoum, Dec. 4, 1902. 



This example was shot on the green grass at the edge of the 

 subsiding Nile. This is the only occasion that I have seen the 

 Ring-Ousel in the Soudan, and Captain Shelley tells me that 

 my specimen is the only one which has ever been obtained within 

 the Ethiopian Region, i. e., south of the Tropic of Cancer. 



107. Turdus pelios Bp. 



a. $'i Gallabat, May 6, 1901. 



b. <$. „ April 20, 1903. 



I found the Ethiopian Thrush fairly common at Gallabat 

 on the Abyssinian frontier in May 1901, and on the Upper 



