Ornithology of the Egyptian Soudan. 391 



I first met with it halfway between El Duem and El Obeid, 

 and thence west to the Mazrub Wells. 



It is much noisier than the other Soudan Bustards, 

 continually uttering at morning and eveniug a loud, harsh, 

 grating call-note, which generally seems to come from much 

 nearer quarters than where the bird really is. A gunshot 

 will cause any individual within hearing to start calling at 

 any time of the day. It seemed to me much warier and 

 harder to secure than the little Black-bellied Bustard. 



From a description in some MS. notes kindly lent me by 

 Captain Cummins, R.A.M.C, I gather that he shot examples 

 of this species near Goz Regeb on the Atbara. I have never 

 seen it in cotton-soil districts. 



293. Otis nuba Riipp. 



I have not met with this Bustard myself, but Capt. H. N. 

 Dunn, R.A.M.C, shewed me the skin of one which he had 

 shot near the Haraza Mountains, in Western Kordofan, and 

 told me that in that locality it was common. 



294. Lissotis lovati Grant. 



a. <J. Gedaref, May 24, 1901. 



b. ? . „ May 26, 1901. 



All the Black-bellied Bustards which I have shot have 

 belonged to this species. Mr. Hawker found this bird and 

 Lissotis hartlaubi together on the White Nile, and possibly 

 I have not distinguished between them on the wing, when 

 their appearance must be almost identical. 



This Bustard is almost always found in pairs. It does not 

 generally fly very far when flushed, and can usually be walked 

 up again if there is any cover, and killed without much 

 trouble. The big Eupoclotis arabs seldom settles again 

 within sight when once flushed. 



I have shot Lord Lovat's Bustard at Gedaref, at Gallabat, 

 on the Blue Nile, White Nile, and Bahr-el-Ghazal. The 

 stomach usually contains grasshoppers only. 



The iris is yellowish brown, the eyelid purple ; the bill 

 dusky brown along the culmen, greenish at the base, and 

 reddish brown at the sides ; the legs and feet are dirty white. 



