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Captain H. Lynes, R.N., gave an account of an expedition 

 to the Sudan which he had made in company with Mr. Abel 

 Chapman and Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe, and described some 

 of the birds which the party had met with in the country 

 behind Suakim and on the Blue and White Niles. With 

 the aid of a large-scale map he traced out the course of their 

 journey. Arriving at Suakim in November 1913, after a 

 few days' collecting, the party took train and arrived at 

 Khartoum, and thence journeyed up the Blue Nile and 

 along its tributary the Dinder River, where a month was 

 very profitably spent and many valuable skins of mammals, 

 birds, etc., were procured. Returning to Khartoum early 

 in January they sailed in a well-appointed dahabiyeh up 

 the White Nile with the intention of proceeding to 

 Redjaf. Lack of time and inability to extend their 

 charter of the dahabiyeh prevented their getting further 

 than Lake No. 



The month of February was spent in the west to east bend 

 of the White Nile between Lake No and the Sobat River ; 

 here many birds characteristic of the Southern Sudan 

 began to occur, and a new species of Bush-Lark of the 

 genus Mirafra, as well as a new subspecies of Reed- Warbler 

 of the genus Calamocichla were discovered. 



The party returned to Khartoum in the middle of March, 

 and thence proceeded by railway to the Red Sea Province, 

 where they spent three weeks in the hills behind Suakim 

 at an altitude of 3000 feet. Here they were able to make 

 observations on the breeding-habits of many of the birds, 

 besides adding to the collection of mammals, birds, and 

 insects. 



This completed their trip, and the party returned to 

 England at the end of April, with a collection of some 

 1500 birds and mammals, besides insects, etc. 



The collections have been presented to the British Museum, 

 and the party hope before long to give a detailed account of 

 the ornithological section in ' The Ibis.' 



