19 1 8.] the Birds of the Anglo-Eyyptian Sudan. 685 



Saxicola torquata maura. 



Pratincola torquata maura (Pall.) ; Hartert, Vog. pal. 

 Faun. p. 707. 



Pratincola ruhicola (Linn.) ; Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 336. 



[B. coll.] 1 Shencli Jan. Ber. : 1 Port Sudan Apl. U.S. ; 



4 Khartoum Nov. Jan. Feb. ; 1 Renk Feb. U.N. 

 [C. & L. coll.] 3 nr. Renk Jan. Mch., 1 Tonga Feb., 



1 between Sobat and Zeraf rivers Feb. U.N. 

 The Stonechat of the Sudan obviously belongs to the 

 race breeding in the Caucasus and Persia. On the other 

 hand, most of the Egyptian birds belong to the European 

 S. t. rubicola. 



Saxicola rubetra rubetra. 



Pratincola rubetra rubetra (Linn.) ; Hartert^ Vog. pal. 

 Faun. p. 702; Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 336, 1908, p. 232. 



[B. coll.] 3 Kenisa Oct. Mon. 



[Chr. coll.] 1 Meridi Feb. B.G. ; 6 Yei Nov. Dec. L.E. 



The Whinchat is a common migrant in the Sudan, but 

 the majority pass on to the southern districts of Mongalla 

 and the Bahr el Ghazal to winter (^A. L. B.). 



Cercomela melanura lypura. 



Sylvia lypura Hempr. & Ehr. Symb. Phys. 1828, fol. ee : 

 Abyssinia (eastern Eritrea apud Neumann & Zedlitz). 



Cercomela melanura lypura (H. & E.) ; Neumann & Zedlitz, 

 J. f. O. 1913, p. 365. 



Myrmecocichla leipura (H. & E.) ; Butler, Ibis, 1908, 

 p. 235, 1909, p. 399. 



[B. coll.] 1 Erkowit Mch., 2 Khor Arbat May, 2 Jebel 

 Bawati May, U.S. 



[C. & L. coll.] 3 Sinkat Mch., 1 Kamobsana Dec. R.S. 



Found breeding by Butler in the Khor Arbat hills. 

 Neither this nor the brown-tailed C. s. scutocerca had been 

 previously found farther north than Eritrea ; they both 

 appear to occur together in tlie same localities, and we 

 think it is possible they are two forms of the same species. 



