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gravel, with sufficient grass aud scrub to afford some cover. 

 Mr. Witherby obtained it at Wad Mariun on the White 

 Nile, Messrs. Rothschild and Wollaston at Shendi, and I 

 have met with it near Kamlin on the Blue Nile (April 1st, 

 1901) ; twenty miles west of Omdurman (Jan. 2nd, 1903); 

 and at Jebel Shuwei, in Kordofan, a hill about thirty-six miles 

 inland from El Duem on the White Nile (May 10th, 1904). 

 It also occurs on the Atbara. On the red-sand tracts of 

 Western Kordofan I frequently saw Nightjars in the evening, 

 when it was too dark to identify them, and when I was 

 carrying only a rifle ; they may have been of this species. 



137. Caprimulgus .egyptius Licht. 



a. $ . Khartoum, Dec. 10, 1902. 



b. ? . Bahr-el-Homar, March 1902. 



I have met with the Egyptian Nightjar from Shendi, along 

 the White Nile, to the junction of the Bahr-el-Homar with 

 the Bahr-el-Ghazal ; and on the Blue Nile between Khartoum 

 and Medani. 



At Khartoum in the winter months it may generally be 

 found during the day resting among old brick-rubble and 

 mud-ruins, six or seven birds often being in close company. 

 By April these birds seem to leave the vicinity of the town 

 to breed. 



138. Macrodipteryx longipennis (Shaw). 

 a. (J. Gedaref, May 28, 1901. 



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c. cJ . Roseires, May 28, 1904. 



The splendid Standard-winged Nightjar occurs right across 

 the Soudan from the Upper Blue Nile and Upper Atbara to 

 the White Nile and Bahr-el-Ghazal, but I have only met 

 with it south of the 14th degree of N. latitude. Though, 

 on the whole, an uncommon bird, it is in places fairly 

 plentiful. Water is essential to it, and it is locally migratory 

 to the extent of spreading in the rainy season to localities 

 where pools are then found in khors which are dry in the 

 hot months. At Gedaref, where the late Colonel Collinson, 

 C.B., had told me that I should find it, I searched in vain 



