340 Mr. A. L. Butler on the 



country. I have met with it on the Upper Blue Nile, at 

 Gedaref and Gallabat, and on the White Nile near Fashoda. 

 It is generally very much tamer than the other Wheatears. 



The striking black-and-white Saxicola leucopygia Brehm, 

 which is so noticeable along the rocky banks of the Nile 

 between Assouan and Wadi Haifa, does not appear to extend 

 south of that station. 



117. Mel.enornis edolioides (Swainson). 

 a. ? . Gallabat, May 8, 1901. 



I met with this species singly or in pairs in the khor at 

 Gallabat. Its habits seemed to be something like those of 

 the small Drongos and the more sluggish Flycatchers. 



My specimen was identified by Dr. Hartert. I notice 

 that Shelley (Birds of Afr. i. p. 93) gives W. Africa for 

 M. edolioides, and N.-E. Africa for M. pammelcena (Stanl.). 



118. Bradyornis pallidus (v. Mull.). 



a. ? ? Tewfikia, White Nile, April 1902. 



I saw this bird, which very closely resembles a Garden- 

 Warbler, a few times on the White Nile in the spring of 

 1902. One of them kept returning to the same perch, much 

 after the manner of a Flycatcher. 



119. Muscicapa grisola Linn. 



The Spotted Flycatcher arrives at Khartoum in large 

 numbers in the autumn, but after a week or two entirely 

 disappears, passing on further south. Its return passage in 

 the spring is, for some reason, much less noticeable. I 

 have not been able to note the date of the autumn arrival 

 exactly, but the bird was abundant when I returned from leave 

 on Sept. 13th, 1901, and by Sept. 17th, 1902. In both of 

 these years it suddenly vanished again during the second week 

 in October. 



120. Muscicapa atricapilla Linn. 



a. ? . Tewfikia, White Nile, April 1902. 

 The Pied Flycatcher, like the Spotted, passes through 

 Khartoum in the autumn, and again in the spring, but is 



