Birds from the While Nile. 437 
Lissotis melanogaster. 
British East Africa, Ravine, Mau (Johnston) ; Machakos 
(Hinde) ; Nyasaland {fVhite) ; Mozambique {Churchill)'^ 
Transvaal [Ayres] ; Durban [Gordge] ; Ambriz [Monteiro) ; 
Accra (Buckley, Shelley, Smith, Ussher)» 
Hab. British East Africa to South Africa, and thence north, 
wards on the West Coast to Angola, the Gold Coast, and 
Senegambia. 
165. CEdicnemus senegalensis. 
(Edicnemus senegalensis Swains. ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 327 ; 
Witherby,p. 277; N. C. Roths. & Wollast. p. 32 ; Gates, Cat. 
Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. pp. 82, 363 (1902). 
«. ? . 20 miles N. of Fashoda, 19th March. No. 150. 
b.^. Near Renk, 13th May. No. 471. 
Iris dark straw-coloured or yellow, granulated or veined with 
black on the outer edge ; orbits yellow ; bill black, greenish 
yellow at the base ; legs and feet greenish grey or pale green. 
[The Senegal Thick-knee was not a very common bird. 
We obtained a clutch of two eggs about 20 miles to the north 
of Fashoda.— R. M. H.] 
166. Pluvianus ^gyptius. 
Pluvianus cegyptius (Linn.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 327 ; 
Witherby, p. 278; N. C. Roths. & Wollast. p. 33 ; Gates, 
Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. pp. 74, 361 (1902). 
«. ? . 20 miles N. of Fashoda, 19th March. No. 145. 
b, 6-. c? $ . Fashoda, 31st March. Nos. 259, 260. 
Iris dark hazel ; bill black ; legs and feet blue. 
[The Crocodile-bird was nowhere very numerous, but we 
managed to obtain a clutch of eggs. I had searched one 
small islet without finding any sign of them, and was 
engaged in searching another, when Mr. Cheetham called to 
me that he had found the eggs on the first islet. He had 
watched the birds through a glass from some distance after 
I had left, and had seen one of them scratch away the sand 
and sit down. He went to the place and found three ^^^^ 
under the sand, the bird having again covered them before 
he got to the spot. — R. M. H.] 
