1922.] (Collection of Birds made in the Sudan. 701 



Gallinula angulata Siindeviill. 



The specimen mentioned, page 825, is in our Museum at 

 Giza. 



Columba livia schimperi Bonapnrto. 



1 C(tnsi<loi- that it is quite impossible to assign any name 

 to the Pigeon of the Nile Valley between Cairo and Aswan. 

 Pigeons have been kept in a semi-domesticated state for so 

 long in Egypt that it is now almost impossible to shoot 

 two similar birds from the same flock. Although many 

 apparently pure coloured '^schimperi'' may be obtained, 

 1 have several similar examples but with pure white 

 '' buffer " l)unds on the back. One may also get feather- 

 footed birds, white, black, pied and red, and chequers, from 

 the same flock. These facts surely speak for themselves. 



Coturnix coturnix coturnix (Linnoeus). 



In my 'Handlist' 1 wiongly, as I now consider, included 

 C. c. capensis among the birds of Egypt on the strength of 

 red-throated specimens. Last year (1920) I purchased a 

 great many living Quail, all the males of which were care- 

 fully examined, and all were found to be quite typical 

 C. r. coturnix as- regards the coloration of the throat. I now 

 find (July 1921) that many of these males have assumed 

 deep brick-red throats. It, therefore, seems ])robal)l(> that 

 the Quail, in this country, assumes a red throat in summer. 



Ammoperdix heyi cholmleyi 0. -Grant. 



I have examined the specimen obtained by ]\lr. F. S. 

 AVorthington at Aswan (p. 8-47), and entirely agree with 

 the authors as to its being cliolmleyi. (Since I pul)lished 

 my ' Handlist' I have received a fine pair of adult 

 A. h. iiicolli, shot by T. W. Russell Pasha, two days' march 

 south of Assuit. This is the farthest south I have yet 

 received evidence of its occurrence.) In the next edition of 

 my list I shall therefore include A. h. cliolmlciii. \\v have 

 yet to learn where the two forms meet. 



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