The Sahara specimens comprised the following birds[19]:

1.Guinea Fowl.
2.Common Quail (M).
3.Coot (M).
4.Large and small Long-tailed Senegal Sandgrouse.
5.Coronated Sandgrouse.
6.Lichtenstein’s Barred Sandgrouse.
7.Nubian Bustard.
8.Arab Bustard.
9.Tern (M).
10.Stilt (M).
11.Wood Sandpiper (M).
12.Common Sandpiper (M).
13.Ruff and Reeve (M).
14.Snipe (M).
15.Stone Curlew.
16.Green Sandpiper (M).
17.Spurwing Plover.
18.Cream-coloured Cursor.
19.Palm Dove.
20.Red-eyed Grey Dove.
21.Turtle Dove.
22.Cape Dove.
23.Blue Rock Pigeon.
24.Shoveller (M).
25.Pintail (M).
26.Common Teal (M).
27.Garganey Teal (M).
28.Tree Duck (M).
29.Great Billed Goose (M).
30.Egyptian Goose (M).
31.Night Heron (M).
32.Purple Heron (M).
33.Bittern.
34.Black and White Stork.
35.Glossy Ibis.
36.Carrion Vulture.
37.White Vulture.
38.Griffon Vulture.
39.White-breasted Eagle.
40.Egyptian Kite.
41.Pallid Hen Harrier (M).
42.Singing Hawk.
43.Peregrine Falcon.
44.Kestrel.
45.Barn Owl
46.African Long-eared Owl.
47.Eagle Owl.
48.Scops Owl (M).
49.Long-eared Grey Owl.
50.Asben Little Owl (B).
51.Black and White Crested Cuckoo.
52.Golden Cuckoo.
53.Red-billed Hornbill.
54.Greater Saharan Woodpecker.
55.Lesser Saharan Woodpecker.
56.African Roller.
57.African Hoopoe.
58.European Hoopoe (M).
59.Wood Hoopoe (B).
60.Black-capped Blue Bee Eater.
61.Green Bee-Eater.
62.Blue Naped Crested Coly.
63.Goldcrest Barbet.
64.Yellow-breasted Barbet.
65.Red-headed Barbet (B).
66.Golden Nightjar (B).
67.European Nightjar (M).
68.Brown Nightjar and Pennant Winged Nightjar.
69.White-rumped Swift.
70.European Swift (M).
71.Pallid Swift.
72.Red-rumped African Swallow.
73.European Swallow (N).
74.Saharan Rock Martin (B).
75.Redstart (M).
76.Common Wheatear (M).
77.Desert Wheatear.
78.Black Wheatear.
79.Saharan Rock Chat (B).
80.Whinchat (M).
81.Rock Thrush (M).
82.Black Thicket Babbler.
83.Brown Bush Babbler (B).
84.Rufous Warbler.
85.Reiser’s Pallid Warbler.
86.Icterine Warbler (M).
87.Chestnut-breasted Grey Warbler.
88.Common Whitethroat (M).
89.Orphean Warbler (M).
90.Chiff-chaff (M).
91.Willow Wren (M).
92.Crowned Grass Warbler.
93.Alexander’s Scrub Warbler.
94.Short-tailed Buff-breasted Warbler.
95.Yellow-breasted Sunbird.
96.Dark Green Sunbird (B).
97.Sudanese Penduline Tit.
98.Puff-backed Flycatcher.
99.Spotted Flycatcher (M).
100.Pied Flycatcher (M).
101.Collared Flycatcher (M).
102.Grey Shrike.
103.Red-headed Shrike (M).
104.Small Chestnut Striped Shrike.
105.Yellow Wagtail (M).
106.White Wagtail (M).
107.Asben Brown Pipit (B).
108.European Tawny Pipit (M).
109.European Tree Pipit (M).
110.Red-throated Pipit (M).
111.Great Curve-billed Desert Lark.
112.Mirafra Short-toed Lark.
113.Buff Saharan Lark (B one group).
114.Crested Lark.
115.Bar-tailed Desert Lark.
116.Small Thick-billed Lark.
117.Eastern Short-toed Lark(M).
118.Chestnut Black-breasted Lark.
119.Grey Black-breasted Lark.
120.Striolated Bunting.
121.Desert Sparrow.
122.Chestnut-backed Yellow Sparrow.
123.Grey Serin Finch.
124.Trumpeter Bullfinch.
125.Pencil-crowned Weaver (B).
126.Lesser Yellow Weaver.
127.Greater Yellow Weaver.
128.Singing Finch.
129.Senegal Waxbill.
130.Rufous-breasted Starling.
131.Wing-spotted Glossy Starling.
132.Pied Crow.
133.Desert Raven.
134.Short-tailed Raven.

CARRION VULTURES

The following are the additional seventy-three species and subspecies that were found in the Western Sudan on the southern margins of the Sahara between latitudes 12° and 16°:

135.Ostrich.
136.Rock Partridge.
137.Francolin (two species).
138.Barred Sandgrouse.
139.Pigmy Golden Quail.
140.Senegal Bustard.
141.Wattled Plover.
142.Cream-coloured Cursor.
143.Blue-spotted Ground Dove.
144.Greater Grey Dove.
145.Dark-eyed Grey Dove.
146.Blue-spotted Pigeon.
147.Green Pigeon.
148.Cattle Egret.
149.Large Grey Heron.
150.Sacred Ibis.
151.Snake Eagle.
152.Swallow-tailed Hawk.
153.Red-winged Hawk.
154.Sparrow Hawk.
155.Banded Gymmogene.
156.Red-headed Falcon.
157.Pigmy Falcon.
158.Lanner Falcon.
159.Senegal Little-eared Owl.
160.Little Owl
161.Lark-heeled Cuckoo.
162.Great Spotted Cuckoo.
163.Black-billed Hornbill.
164.Large Grey Plantain Eater.
165.Small Green Parrot.
166.Spotted-capped Woodpecker.
167.Square-tailed African Roller.
168.Little Short-tailed Roller.
169.Grey Kingfisher (B).
170.Black and Scarlet Barbet.
171.Greater Wood Hoopoe.
172.Long-tailed Nightjar.
173.Palm Swift.
174.African Swallow.
175.Red-browed Swallow.
176.Black and White Wheatear (M).
177.Sudanese Rock-Chat (B).
178.Brown Bush Babbler (B).
179.Common Reed Warbler (M).
180.Bonelli’s Warbler (M).
181.Long-tailed Scrub Warbler.
182.Little Scrub Warbler.
183.Golden-thighed Warbler.
184.Striped Grass Warbler.
185.Senegal Sunbird.
186.White Eye.
187.Paradise Flycatcher.
188.Red-winged Bush Shrike.
189.Crimson Shrike.
190.Black and White Crested Shrike (B).
191.Long-tailed Shrike.
192.Painted Yellow-breasted Bunting.
193.Greater Bush Sparrow.
194.Lesser Bush Sparrow (B).
195.Yellow Serin Finch.
196.Large Black Weaver.
197.Whydah Finch.
198.Little Black Weaver.
199.Red Bishop.
200.Banded Amadevat.
201.Melba Finch.
202.Grey Scarlet-marked Waxbill.
203.Bengalee Waxbill.
204.Long-tailed Glossy Starling.
205.Purple Starling.
206.Tick Bird.
207.Little Long-tailed Crow.

CHAPTER XIII
MAMMALS OF THE SAHARA