1922.] Collection of Birds made in the Sudan. 089 



(Enanthe hispanica melanoleuca (Giildenstadt). 

 S • Seunar, Dec. 1920. ? . Uin liuaba, Kordofan, Dec. 

 1920. 



(Enanthe deserti deserti (Temminck). 



5 c?, 3 ?. Kabasliia, Berber, Jan. 1921. 2 <^ . Haifa, 

 Feb. 1921. 



The two forms o£ Desert Chat which occur in northern 

 Africa are (E. d. deserti, the eastern form, and CE.d'. homochroa, 

 the western form. Both occur as residents in Eoypt, though 

 there appears to be a slight migration of the western form 

 in spring. 



In my ' Handlist,' page 3, I wrongly used the name 

 atrogularis for the eastern race. 



(Enanthe lugens persica (Scebohm). 

 ? . Haifa, Feb. 1921. 



The winter range of this Chat extends to Egy|)t and the 

 Sudan. I have an adult female which I shot at Abu Hamcd in 

 winter, and we also have two winter specimens from Upper 

 Egypt. 



The western race of lugens has occurred in Egypt ; an 

 adult femalc; shot by myself in Giza Province on 24. ii. 1909, 

 is in our Museum. 



The actual meeting place of 0. I. lugens and 0. I. halophila 

 is not known, but I obtained a pair of adult birds near the 

 Giza Pyramids, getting into breeding condition^ on 2S Feb- 

 ruary, 1921. The male is a typical halophila, and the female 

 lugens lugens ! 



Galerida cristata halfae Nicoll. 



Galenda cristata halfa Nicoll, Bull. B. 0. C. vol. xlii, 1921, 

 p. 7. 



3 c?,4 ?. Haifa, Feb. 1921. 



This interesting race, occurring between the ranges of 

 G. c. altirostris and mdnca, was hardly a surprise to me as T 

 had seen, though not o\)tained, examples in 1910. 



As I have stated before, I cannot agree with my friend 

 Hartert on his later nonienclatiu-e of these Larks. The name 



