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123. Oedicnemus senegallensis Sw. On considerable stretches 

 of the White River, this plover was as common as the spur- 

 winged plover — and quite as noisy. North of Omdurman I only 

 noticed very few specimens of it. 



124. Hoplopterus spinosus (L.) f. This conspicuous bird 

 was one of those we met with most frequently during all the 

 journey from Shendy to our farthest station. Only in the swamp 

 regions between Gebelein and Kaka it was not so common. I 

 often met with it pretty far from the river. My friend Dr In- 

 nes Bey gave me a set of incubated eggs of the Spurwing plo- 

 ver, taken on the river bank near our farthest station at Ghrab 

 el Aish in the beginning of March. 



125. Chaetusia gregaria (Pall.) f. On the Abba Island a 

 specimen of this bird was shot on the 12 th of February. 



126. Pluvianus aegyptius (L.) f . In the region of the reeds 

 and Papyrus djungles I never observed these beautiful birds, but 

 nearer Omdurman and on the sandbanks in the river between 



I this town and Shendy we met with a few of them. 



127. Actophilus africanus (Om.) (= Parra africana) This 

 beautiful little wader we first met with in the neighbourhood of 

 G-ebelein. North of the "sedd"-bordered region of the river it did 

 not occur. In suitable localities it was very common from that 

 place to our farthest station at Grhrab el Aish. In its stomach 

 I only found seeds of water plants. 



128. Limnocorax niger (GrM.) SMC . A single specimen of this 

 species was shot in the reeds bordering a little swamp near the 

 White Eiver not far from Grebel Ahmed Agha, 



129. Struthio camelus L. *. Not far from our farthest 

 station on the eastern bank of the river at Ghrab el Aish my 

 friend T. Odhner, when out on one of his shooting trips, came 

 across a splendid male accompanying a flock of four chickens, 

 one of which, was captured. It was then, in the first days of 

 March, about 60 cm high. The male played its usual tricks 

 trying to draw the attention of the intruders to himself. 



