1920.] the Birds of the Anglo-Kgyptian Sudan. 799 



Otis (Neotis) burchelli. 



Eupodotis hurchellii licMigl. J. f. O. 1867, p. 301 : Jebel 

 Dili, south of Sevmar. 



0th burchelli Reichw. V. A. i. p. 246. 



Notliin*;- fiirtlier lias been discovered about this species 

 since Heuo;lin's original description, or have any other 

 specimens come to light. There is an excellent figure in 

 Heuglin^s Orn. Nordost-Afr. pi. xxxi. of a very fine-looking 

 Bustard of the size of O. cafra, with a black face, throat, 

 and ci'op, and a red back to the neck. 



Otis (Lissotis ?) nuba. 



Otis nuba Cretzschmar, Atlas, 1826, p. 1, pi. i. : Nubia ; 

 Keichw. V. A. i. p. 247 ; Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 391. 



Mr. Butler records this Bustard from Kordofan, west of 

 Omdurman, and from near "Summit^' on the Red Sea 

 Railway. 



Otis (Lissotis) melanogaster. 



Otis melanoyaster Riipp. Neue AVirb. 1835, p. 16, pi. vii. : 

 Lake Tsana ; Keichw. V. A. i. p. 256. 



Lissotis lovati Grraut ; Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 391 (part.), 

 1908, p. 260. 



[B. coll ] 1 Malakal lAlay, 1 Khor Filus'June, U.N. ; 

 1 Mongalla May, Mon. ; 1 Rejaf Feb. L.E. 



[C & L. coll.] 1 nr. Tonga, 1 nr. Lake No, 1 between 

 Zeraf and Sobat Rivers, 1 lat. 9^° N., long. 31° E. 

 Fel). U.N. 



Ogilvie-Grant in 'The Ibis,^ 1902, pp. 453-457, renamed 

 this bird Lissotis lovati, as was pointed out l)y Oberholser, 

 P. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxviii. 1905, p. 836. Both, however, agreed 

 that there were two species, one with much white on the wings 

 and one with little, and Oberholser named the latter Lissotis 

 notophila, fixing Durban as the type-locality. On examining 

 the material in the Museum, however, we found that a 

 series of these Bustards from Natal and elsewhere collected 

 by Claude Grant, and which Mr. Ogilvie-Grant had not seen 

 when writing his paper, had since arrived in the Museum. 

 These show at once that the South African forui has also 



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