1918.] the Birds of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 645 



Acrocephalus stentoreus stentoreus. 



Currucu stentorea Hempricli & Ehrenberg, Symb. Phys. 

 Aves, 1833, fol. bb : Damietta, Egypt. 



Jcrocephalus stentorea stentorea (H. & E.) ; Hartert, Vog. 

 pal. Faun. p. 559. 



Dr. Hartert states tbat this bird was obtained by Brehm 

 on the Blue Nile, 24 December, ]850. There are Egyptian 

 but no Sudanese examples iu the Museum collections. 



Heliolais erythroptera erythroptera. 



Drymoica erythroptera Jurdiue, Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 15 : 

 West Africa. 



Heliolais erythroptera (Jard.) ; Reichw. Vog. Afr. iii. 

 p. 570. 



Orthotomus erythropterus Butler, Ibis, 1909, p. 82. 



[B. coll.] 1 Wau Mch. B.G. 



[Chr. coll.] 1 Meridi Feb. B.G. 



I shot a male at Kajo Kaji L.E. 27 Mch. 1915 ; it is now 

 in the Gordon College Museum at Khartoum. A rare bird. 

 (A. L. B.) 



Melocichla mentalis amauroura. 



Argya amauroura Pelz. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxii. 

 1883, p. 503 : Fadibek, Upper White Nile, E. of Nimule. 

 Melocichla mentalis Butler, Ibis, 1908, p. 230, 1909, p. 82. 

 [B. coll.] 5 near Cliak Chak, 1 Tembura Mch. B.G. ; 



1 Bor May, Mon. ; 1 Kajo Kaji, 2 Bejaf, Apl. L.E. 

 [Chr. coll.] 1 Tembura, 1 Meridi Mch. B.G. 



The races of this bird appear to be — 



1. M. m. mentalis (Fraser). 



West Africa from the Gold Coast to N. Angola. 



2. M. m. orientalis Sharpe. 



Nyasaland and German East Africa north to 

 Ukamba. 



3. M. m. amauroura Pelz. 



Uganda, western British East Africa, White 

 Nile, Bahr el Ghazal, and S. Abyssinia. 



