PHILLIPS: BIRDS FROM THE SUDAN. 13 
CAPRIMULGAS AEGYPTIUS Lichtenstein. 
3 o’s and 3 2’s, Magangani, Blue-Nile, 25 Jan., 26 Jan., 27 Jan., 
29 Jan., 31 Jan.; Roseires, 13 Jan. 
This may be C. a. saharae Erlanger, the paler resident African race, 
_ but no material is at hand for comparison. 
Common over the high grass at dusk. In large areas of elephant 
grass they were very numerous. Dr. Allen found ground crickets 
and cockroaches in the stomach of one of these birds which was shot 
early in the evening. 
CAPRIMULGUS ELEANORAE Phillips. 
Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 1913, 26, p. 167. 
Type, adult 2 M. C. Z. No. 63,436, taken at Fazogli, Blue-Nile, 
Sudan, 15 Jan., 1913. 
Description.— Most nearly like C. monticola of India, of which it 
appears to be the African representative. In general color very much 
like the gray examples of C. monticola, but at once distinguished by the 
spots on the three outer primaries, being small and round and confined 
wholly to the inner web, instead of being large and extending across 
both webs of 2d, 3d, and 4th primaries. In the new species the spot 
on the first primary is only 7 mm. in diameter, while on the third 
primary it is about 12 mm. Wing, 185 mm.; culmen to base of fore- 
head, 28 mm.; exposed culmen, 11 mm.; tarsus, 20 mm. ‘The char- 
acters of the male are unknown. 
Remarks.— This species differs from all African species of somewhat 
similar general coloration by its much larger size, equal in fact to C. 
monticola. 
Only one specimen was taken. 
MICROPODIDAE. 
TACHORNIS PARVUS PARVUS (Lichtenstein). 
1 o’, Roseires, Blue-Nile, 13 Jan. 
Common along rivers, especially about deleb palm trees. 
