Letters, Extracts, and Notices. 673 



Captain Alexanders Expedition. — The scientific exploring 

 expedition under Capt. Boyd Alexander, which left England 

 for Upper Nigeria in February last, arrived at Ibi, 250 miles 

 up the Benue, in April and landed there with the view of 

 pushing north into the interior. 



A case of specimens collected by the expedition and 

 forwarded from Ibi has lately reached the Natural History 

 Museum, but there are no bird-skins in it. 



Birds of the Anglo-German Frontier of Uganda. — We 

 have already announced (see above, p. 312) the death by 

 drowning, on the River Kagera, of Mr. W. Gr. Doggett, 

 Naturalist to the Anglo-German Boundary Commission 

 under Lt.-Col. Delme-Radcliffe. The collections made by 

 Doggett have now been received at the British Museum ; 

 they contain a series of about 450 bird-skins, all admirably 

 prepared and in excellent condition, which, when worked 

 out, will give much information on the Avifauna of a very 

 little-known district of East Africa. 



Mr. W. L. Sclater. — The Director of the South African 

 Museum, having finished the MS. of the fourth and con- 

 cluding volume of the " Birds " for the f Fauna of South 

 Africa/ has left Cape Town on a short visit to the Victoria 

 Falls on the Zambesi, by the newly-opened railway from 

 Buluwayo. He has taken a collector with him, who will be 

 stationed at some convenient spot in Rhodesia, where our 

 knowledge of the native birds is still, in Mr. Sclater's 

 opinion, quite imperfect. Capt. Alexander's excellent 

 memoir (' Ibis/ 1899-1900) has given us a good idea of the 

 Avifauna of the lower part of Zambesia, but in the higher 

 districts of this enormous tract very little has as yet been 

 done, and many new discoveries will, no doubt, be made. 



