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Correction to " The Birds of Lower Egypt. '^ 



SiR^ — I beg to draw attention to an error in my recent 

 paper in ' The Ibis/ where I record having identified Alauda 

 arvensis arvensis as occurring in Ej^ypt. An examination 

 of my skins shows, however, that this is not justified, but 

 that both A. a. cinerea and A. a. cantarella do occur. 



1 would also draw attention to the Bull. B. O. C. for 

 May 1921 in which Mr. M.J. Niooll describes the Egyptian 

 form of the Singed Sand-Grouse as a new sub-species under 

 the name of Pterocles senegalensis fluweri. As the skin 

 which has been made a type of this sub-species was 

 apparently obtained by me, it would perhaps prevent 

 future complications if my nomenclature was brought 

 up to date. 



W. Raw. 

 170 New Bridge Street, 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne, 

 June 13, 1921. 



News from Capt. Lynes and Mr. Willoughby Lowe. 



We have not heard from Capt. Lynes since his letter 

 dated 20 February last, when he had reached the Jebel 

 Marra in Dafur and was encamped at an elevation of 

 5250 feet. He writes : — 



"We left El Obeid (railhead) on 6 January with a 

 camelcade of 23 l)easts — we ourselves on donkeys. Our 

 camels were excellent. We did not hurry, and took twenty- 

 four days to do the 420 miles to El Fasher. En route we 

 got several interesting things — perhaps the most useful 

 was two full clutches of eggs of Ortyxelos. I sent Percy 

 Lowe a full description of our first clutch, and the second 

 was exactly similar. Evidently they breed mainly after the 

 rains, when the ground has dried up a bit. 



" Then, Lowe has been doing great things in the big bird 

 and small mammal line. We have got two fine Kori 

 Bustards (old male weighed 21 lbs., and doubtless when 

 fat and breeding would have scaled much more) and a 



