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Letters , Extracts , and Notes. 
569 
Correction to “ The Birds of Lower Egypt/'’ 
Silt,—-I beg to draw attention to an error in my recent 
paper in 1 The Ibis/ where I record having identified Alauda 
arvensis arvensis as occurring in Egypt. An examination 
of my skins shows, however, that this is not justified, but 
that both A. a. cinerea and A. a. cantarella do occur. 
I would also draw attention to the Bull. B. O. C. for 
May 1921 in which Mr. M. J. Nicoll describes the Egyptian 
form of the Singed Sand-Grouse as a new sub-species under 
the name of Pterocles senegalensis floweri. 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 beasts—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 
