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over the fields, but I was unable to approach the last mentioned very fearful 
birds, yet some of them were procured by Mr. Butler next day for our 
collection. 
It' was a great pleasure in Khartoum to pay a visit his Excellency 
Baron SuATiN-Pasha, who not only received us with the greatest kindness, 
but over loaded us with his good advices, and helped in getting the best 
native servants and a caravan of camels which were ordered at Senar at 
the point of departure. 
The employment of time at my disposal was spent in taking a look 
at Butler’s private collection of bird-kins. It is a pity, that for want of 
more time I could not study this splendid collection more deeply embracing 
the Ornithology of the Sudan, nevertheless I was happy to become acquain¬ 
ted with this gentleman. 
The commencement of the march on camels came to pass on 26 th 
January in Senar, wTien we arrived in about five hours at El-Erediba on 
the Blue-Nile. This way led through durrah fields in almost unbearable 
heat, there was the bird-life represented in a tolerable number and many 
of Doves and Cerchneis tinnunculus (L.) were seen everywhere. 
On the first day at El-Erediba I was much struck by the plentiful 
feathered tribe, though a strong gale continued into the next day, when 
the air was saturated with dust, wdiile the Sun only appeared aboud 10 
o’clock between the dusty cloudes on the horizon. 
Many birds were killed especially Doves for sport. The stay at El- 
Erediba was confined to two days only, and therefore a good deal of birds 
passed avay, among them I noted the following species : Laniarius erythro- 
gaster (Cretzm.), Coracias abessinicus Bodd., Lophoceros erythrorhynchus 
(Temm.), Palaeornis parvirosfris Sguance, Falco cherrug Gr., Haliaetus 
vocifer (Daijd.), Lophoaetus occipitalis (Daud.), Lamprotornis aeneocephalus, 
Heugl., Numida ptilorhyncha Lichst. 
Our longest sojourn happened at Luieza, Abu-Hashim and Beida on 
the Binder, though we had intended stopping a longer time in the swampy 
part of Khor-Em-Dul between the Dinder and Blue-Nile, but my health 
was attacked suddenly by a strong malaria, which turned later into black 
water-fiver, therefore immediately I had to go in the Hospital at Senga, 
where I was transported through Karkodj. Here I saw a company of Crowned 
Crane on a sand-bank, but being ill the shooting of them did not come off, 
and I was unable to determine the species exactly. Probably, however, 
it was Balearica Ceciliae described by Mitchell in the Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1904, (2) p. 204., which is also enumerated in Butler’s paper, Ibis 1908, 
p. 206 for Sudan. 
