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Siks, — In his paper on a collection of Birds made in 

 Northern Somaliland, Mr. D. A. Banner man makes the 

 remark (p. 297) that the female of Passer castanopterus does 

 not appear to have been previously described. Mr. Bannerman 



seems not to have consulted a paper of mine ('Ibis/ 1905, 

 p. 509) on a most interesting collection made by Captain 

 A. E. Hamerton in the same country, in which a description 

 of the female of this species was given (p. 518). 



Yours fee, 

 326 High Holhorn, JI. p. WlTHERBY. 



London, W.< '. 

 May 11th, 1910. 



Siks,— In the « Ibis' of April 1910, vol. iv. p. 359, it is 

 stated of two Yellow-browed Warblers (Phylloscopns */>//</•- 

 ciliosus) from East Ross-shire that they are "the first known 

 to have occurred on the Scottish mainland." May I point 

 out that these birds were recorded in the 'Annals of Scottish 

 Natural History/ 1910, p. 55, as " the first record for the 

 autumn of the occurrence of this interesting migrant on the 

 mainland of Scotland," and that the first actual record of 

 the Yellow-browed Warbler on the mainland of Scotland, 

 as also its first occurrence in spring in the British Isles, 

 were recorded in the f Annals of Scottish Natural History/ 

 1909, p. 183. The date of this interesting occurrence was 

 April 11th, 1909, near Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire. 



Yours &c, 

 Oapenoch, Thoruhill, Hugh S. Gladstone. 



Dumfriesshire. 

 May 30th, 1910. 



Sirs,— On the 28th of April last an example of the 

 Senegalese Sand-Grouse (Pterocles senegalus) was obtained 

 at Santa Croce Camarina in the province of Syracuse, and 

 was forwarded to me in the flesh. 



The specimen in question, an adult female, when shot, 

 was in company with another individual of the same species, 



