806 Messrs. Sclater and Myckwortli-Praed on [ibis, 



Cursorius temmincki. 



Cursorius temmincki Swains, Zool. lUusti-, ii. 1822, 

 pi. 106 : Senegal ; Reichw. V. A. i. p. 155. 



This Courser hiis been recorded, under the name of 

 Cursorius seneyalensis, from Sennar and easterly Kordofan 

 by Heuglin. We know of no recent occurrences. 



Rhinoptilus chalcopterus chalcoptenis. 



Cursorius chalcopterus Tenim. Pi. Col. livr. 50, 1824, 

 pi. 298 : Senegal. 



Rhinoptilus chalcopterus Reich w. V. A. i. p. 157; Butler, 

 Ibis, 1905, p. 400, 1908, p. 263. 



[J3. coll.] 2 Pougo River Mch. E.G. 



[C. & L. coll.] 2 White Nile kit. 9| N. long. 30° 40' E. 

 Feb. U.N. 



Neumann has separated the southern race of this bird, 

 owing to its alleged darker colour, as R. c. obscurus (O. M. 

 1910, p. 11). Tt appears to us to be separable only with 

 great difficulty from Sudanese examples. Rhinoptilus albo- 

 fasciatus (Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. C. iii. 1893, p. xiv : South 

 Africa) we regard as the young of R. chalcopterus — at least 

 all the examples of this form before us, whatever their 

 locality, are immature birds. 



Rhinoptilus cinctus cinctus. 



Hemerodrumus {Cursorius) cinctus Heugl. J. f. O. 1863, 

 p. 25 : Goudokoro. 



Rhinoptilus cinctus ductus Zedlitz, J. f. O. 1914, p. 624. 



This species has not apparently been obtained in the 

 Auglo-Egyptian Sudan since Heuglin's time. Zedlitz {op. 

 cit.) has given a revision of the races. 



Family Jacanid^, 



Actophilus africanus. 



Parra ajricana Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. pt. 2, 1789, p. 709 : 

 Africa, restricted type-locality, Abyssinia [cf. Claude Grant, 

 Ibis, 1915, p. 59). 



Actojjhilus africanus Reichw. V. A. i. p. 267. 



