1920. J the Birda of the Any lo- Egyptian Sudan. H05 



Fauiilj^ (JursoriiDjE. 



Ortyxelos meiflEreni. 



Turnix meiffreni Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxxv. 1818, p. 49 : 

 Senegal. 



Ortyxelos meiffreni Reicliw. V. A. i. p. 162 ; Butler, Ibis, 

 1905, p. 386. 



[B. coll.] 1 El Obeid Mch. Kor. 



The specimens in the Museum from Senegal are hardly 

 in suffieiently good order for comparison, but it may be 

 worthy of remark that of five t'roni the neighbourhood of 

 Lake Chad, while no two of them are alike, all differ 

 considerably from Kordolan examples. 



Pluvianus segyptius. 



Charadrius ayyptius Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, 

 p. 150 : Egypt. 



Pluvianus cegyptius Reichw. V. A. i. p. 150; Butler, Ibis, 

 1905, p. 399, 1908, p. 263. 



[B. coll.] 1 Blue Nile Apl. ; 1 Chak Chak Feb. B.G. 



[0. & L. coll.] 1 White Nile lat. 14° N. Jan. W.N. 



[Chr. coll.] 2 Wau July, Aug. B.O. 



Cursorius gallicus gallicus. 



Charadrius gallicus Gniel. Syst. Nat. i. pt. 2, 1789, 

 p. 692 : France. 



Cursorius gallicus Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 400. 



[B. coll.] 1 Shendi Mch. Ber. ; 6 Khartoum Jan. Feb. 

 Nov., 1 Omdurman Apl. Kh. 



[C. & L. coll.] 1 nr. Sennar Jan. Sen. 



The.^e Coursers all seem indistinguishable from ty[)ical 

 examples of ('. y. gallicus, nor can we recognise C. g. kordo- 

 fanensis Wettsttin, Anz. K. Akad. Wien, 1916, no. 13, 

 p. 131 : El Obeid, as being in any way distinct. The 

 character of the yellow-u ashed chin and under tail-coverts 

 seems to occur in many s[iccimens from the shores of the 

 Mediterranean, and, as a nuitter of fact, a single bird befoi'e 

 us from El Obeid is somewhat light-coloured in those 

 respects. 



