370 TSCHAGRA REMIGIALIS 
Telephonus senegalus remigialis, Neumann, J. f. O. 1907, p. 372. 
Pomatorhynchus galtoni, Finsch and Hart]. Vog. O. Afr. p. 340 (1870) 
White Nile (nom. nud.) 
Adults. Similar to P. senegalus, but paler, and distinguished by the 
hind neck and mantle being of a more sandy shade; quills with a consider- 
able portion of their bases entirely rufous, and the lesser coverts more 
completely rufous, so that the closed wing is almost entirely rufous ; central 
tail-feathers dark brown, and as a rule, hardly showing their cross-banding ; 
under parts white with no shade of grey and the crop, like the thighs and 
under tail-coverts, with a slight buffy wash. Iris bluish-grey (in some 
examples hazel), bill black, feet greenish-ash. Total length 9:0 inches, 
culmen 0°80, wing 3°5, tail 4:1, tarsus 1:25. Kaka, g, 2. 3. 01 (Hawker). 
The Sandy T'schagra ranges over the Egyptian Sudan from 
near the Junction of the Nile and the Atbara River, south to 
Fashoda and west to Kordofan. 
It was first distinguished by Riippell as a variety of 
Lanius erythropterus from Kordofan (N. Wirbelth, p. 32). 
Finsch and Hartlaub’s type was said to be from Abyssinia, 
more probably it was from the Upper Blue Nile. 
Of recent years it has been met with by Witherby and 
Hawker on the Upper White Nile above Khartum, and 
by Rothschild and Wollaston below Khartum at Shendi. 
Witherby describes the actions of this bird as beautiful 
and fascinating. It leaves a tree with a downward swoop, 
then glides gently up with tail and wings outspread, singing 
as it rises. Rothschild and Wollaston found this species 
haunting the very densest scrub and state that it was one 
of the most shy and retiring birds they met with. They often 
heard its piping whistle long after sunset. Butler, who took 
an example at Wad Medani on the Blue Nile, states that it 
is common throughout the Sudan except in the swamps of 
the Upper Nile. It is met with far from water in the scrub- 
thorn on the western sand regions (7.e., in Kordofan). Koenig 
met with this T'schagra all along the White Nile between Wadi 
