48 Obifuari/. 



yonno- male of the year had tlie lesser wiiig-coverts white, 

 like the adult male. 



196. Saxicola monticola (Vieill.). Mountain Chat. 

 Fairly common. I have shot specimens in all the various 



plumages mentioned in Stark and Sclater, and have written 

 some notes on the plumages of this species elsewhere. 



197. Saxicola PiLEATA (Gm.). Capped Wheatear. 

 Not common. 



198. Pratincola torquata (L.). South African Stone 

 Chat. 



Fairly common. 



199. Cossypha caffra (L.). Cape Robin Chat. 

 Rather scarce. 



200. Ph(EN1CURus familiaris (Steph.). Familiar Chat. 

 Not common. 



lY.—Ol>ituar>/. 



Captain Boyd Alexander. 



This intrepid explorer and keen naturalist met with a violent 

 death on the 2nd April, 1910, in the Lake Chad region, 

 being little short of murdered by natives for no appareut 

 reason, except perhaps that he was a white man. 



The country w^as then in an unsettled condiiion-, owing to 

 the French reverse at Nassalit. 



In the Octol)cr 1910 No. of the 'Ibis/ Mr. Ogilvie-Grant 

 writes an apjireciation of the life and work of Boyd Alex- 

 ander, from which these few remarks are culled. 



He was the eldest son of Lt.-Col. B. F. Alexander, of 

 Swii'ts Place, C!ranbrook ; being born on the IGth January, 

 1873, thus only 37 years old at his death. At 20 years of 

 age he entered a Militia Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, but 

 evinced a great love for Natural Histor}' and collecting from 

 oaj-ly boyhood. 



