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



Caprimulgus eximins. 



Caprimulgus exiniius Temmiuck, PI. Col. livr. 67. 1826, 

 pi. 398: Sennar; Butler, Ibis, 190,5, p. 344, 1908, 

 p. 239. 



[B. coll.] 1 Shendi Mch. Ber. 



[Gurney coll.] 1 Meroe Feb. Ber. 



Butler has written at length on the distribution and 

 breeding o£ this Nightjar in the Sudan. 



Caprimulgus aegyptius aegyptius. 



Caprimulgus nyyptius Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl. Mus. 

 Berlin, 1823, p. 59: Upper Egypt; Heichw. V. A. ii, 

 p. 361 ; Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 345, 1908, p. 239. 



[B. coll.] 3 Shendi Mch. Ber. ; 1 Khartoum Dec. ; 1 

 Junction of Bahr el Hoinar and Balir el Ghazal 

 Mch. B.G. 

 [C. & L. coll.] 2 Kamisa Dec. Sen. ; 2 Lake No, Feb. 

 B.G. 



Caprimulgus nubicus nubicus. 



Caprimulgus nubicus Licht. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berlin, 

 1823, p. 59 : Nubia. 



Caprimulgus nubicus nubicus Hartert, Vog. pal. Faun, 

 p. 851. 



There are two examples of this, the typical form, in the 

 Museum collected by the Hon. C. N. Rothschild at 

 Nakheila and Shereik in the Berber province. There are 

 no specimens in the present collections. 



Caprimulgus nubicus tamaricis. 



Caprimulgus tamaricis Tristram, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1864, pp. 170, 430: Dead Sea Basin. 



Caprimulgus nubicus tamaricis Hartert, Vog. pal. Faun, 

 p. 852. 



Caprimulgus nubicus apud Butler, Ibis, 1908, p. 400. 



[B. coll.] 1 Khor Arbat May, R.S. 



This example differs considerably from the Berber 

 specimens in the distinctly greyer and less sandy tone of the 



