458 Messrs. Sclater and Mackworth-Praed on [Ibis, 



These birds, hoth males in winter dress, are especially 

 interesting as there are no similar examples in the British 

 Museum. Neumann described the winter bird as a distinct 

 specieS; but subsequently recognized his error and identified 

 liis C. dubiosus with Hartert^s P. ansorgei. 



The species is found from Shoa to Ruwenzori, and, so far 

 as we know, has not been hitherto obtained within the limits 

 of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 



Euplectes capensis xanthomelas. 



Pi/romelana xanthomelas (Riipp.) ; Shelley, B. A. iv. p. 77^ 



Antinori, Cat. p. 68, states that he procured examples 

 in the country of the " Kidj Negroes," i. e., Sud country 

 between Bahr el Jebel and Balir el Ghazal. 



It has not been reported from the Sudan since, nor was 

 it procured by Heugliu, but it is known from the highlands 

 of Abyssinia. 



Urobrachya phcenicea, subsp. ? 



ikobrachya p/ia'nicea (Heugl.) ; Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 317, 

 1908, p. 218, 1909, p. 77. 



[B. coll.] 1 Dinder river Mch. Sen. ; 3 Meshra-el-Rek 

 Mch. May, B.G. ; 1 Bor Jan. Mon. ; 1 Lado Feb. L.E. 



[C. & L. coll.] 1 White Nile lat. 10|^ N., 1 Jebel 

 Ahmed Agha, 2 Meshra Zeraf Jan., 6 nr. mouth of 

 Bahr el Zeraf Feb. Mch. U.N. 



All these birds, as well as those already in the British 

 Museum from the Nile districts, are in non-breeding 

 plumage and were taken in the first half of tlie year. 



Heuglin, too, does not seem to have obtained any birds 

 in breeding plumage, judging by what he states in his 

 Orn. N.O.-Afr., although in J. f. O. 1863, p. 167 he gives 

 a description of a male in " summer plumage " from the 

 Sobat. 



It is impossible to say with certainty whether the 

 Sudanese birds should be referred tb the Abyssinian form 

 generally known as U. p. traversi or to the form occurring 

 in Uganda which Reichenow identifies with V. p. phoenicea. 



