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Sirs, — A female example of Emberiza pusilla was procured 

 at the Tees Mouth, near Seaton Snook, on the Durham side 

 of the estuary, on Oct. 11th, 1902, by Messrs. Braithwaite 

 and Millburn. It was submitted to Mr. Ogilvic-Grant, of 

 the British Museum, for identification, and afterwards 

 exhibited at the meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club 

 on Oct. 22nd. As this is only the second known British 

 specimen of this little Bunting, the record of its capture may 

 be considered worthy of a place in the pages of ' The Ibis/ 



Yours &c., 

 The Cliffe, Redcar, T. II. Nelson. 



Dec. 1st, 1902. 



Sirs, — In their paper "On a Collection of Birds from 

 Shendi, Sudan," published in 'The Ibis ^ for January 1902, 

 Messrs. Rothschild and Wollaston write (p. 32) of Eupodotis 

 arabs : — " The chestnut axillaries are a good distinguishing 

 character when the bird is flying." In the Brit. Mus. Cat. 

 Birds, xxiii. p. 323, the axillaries of this species are described 

 as " pure white," and they have certainly been white in about 

 a dozen specimens which I have examined. Did Messrs. 

 Rothschild and Wollaston really come across a species of 

 Eupodotis with chestnut axillaries at Shendi, or is it possible 

 that a note on some other species — Glareola pratincola, for 

 instance — has been mutilated and mixed up with their note 

 on the Bustard ? This explanation suggests itself as the 

 Pratincole is common at Shendi in the spring, but is not 

 referred to in the paper above mentioned, and a reference 

 to it would follow closely after the note on Eupodotis arabs. 



Yours &c., 



A. L. Butler, 



Superintendent of Game Preservation, 

 K hartoum, Sudan, Khartoum, 



Nov. 18th, 1002. 



