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Letters , Extracts , and Notes. 
Sirs, —In liis paper on a collection of Birds made in 
Northern Somaliland, Mr. D. A. Bannerman makes the 
remark (p. 297) that the female of Passer castanopterus does 
not appear to have been previously described. Mr. Bannerman 
seems not to have consulted a paper of mine (‘Ibis/ 1905, 
p. 509) on a most interesting collection made by Captain 
A. E. Hamerton in the same country, in which a description 
of the female of this species was given (p. 518). 
Yours &c., 
326 High Ilolborn, H. F. WlTHERBY. 
London, W.C. 
May 11th, 1910. 
Sins,—In the f Ibis 5 of April 1910, vol. iv. p. 359, it is 
stated of two Yellow-browed Warblers ( Phylloscopus super- 
ciliosus ) from East Boss-shire that they are “ the first known 
to have occurred on the Scottish mainland." May I point 
out that these birds were recorded in the f Annals of Scottish 
Natural History/ 1910, p. 55, as “the first record for the 
autumn of the occurrence of this interesting migrant on the 
mainland of Scotland/ 5 and that the first actual record of 
the Yellow-browed Warbler on the mainland of Scotland, 
as also its first occurrence in spring in the British Isles, 
were recorded in the f Annals of Scottish Natural History/ 
1909, p. 183. The date of this interesting occurrence was 
April 11th, 1909, near Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire. 
Yours &c., 
Capenoch, Thornhill, Hugh S. Gladstone. 
Dumfriesshire. 
May 30th, 1910. 
Sirs,— ’On the 28th of April last an example of the 
Senegalese Sand-Grouse ( Pterocles senegalus) was obtained 
at Santa Croce Camarina in the province of Syracuse, and 
was forwarded to me in the flesh. 
The specimen in question, an adult female, when shot, 
was in company with another individual of the same species. 
