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Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 
presumably its mate, on some rough uncultivated land, 
and a very high wind from the east was blowing at the 
same time. 
For this interesting addition to my Collection and for the 
particulars concerning its capture I am indebted to the 
kindness of the Marquese Arezzo and his son the Duca di 
Celano, large land-owners in the above-mentioned district. 
I believe this to be the first recorded instance of the 
occurrence of this bird not only in Italy, but in Europe. 
I am, Sirs, yours &c., 
Villa Malfitano, Joseph I. S. Whitaker. 
Palermo, Sicily. 
June 2nd, 1910. 
[We believe that Mr. Whitaker is quite correct in stating 
that the Senegalese Sand-Grouse has not been previously 
recorded in Europe. It is, however, well known in Algeria 
and Tunis, see Whitaker's f Birds of Tunisia/ vol. ii. 
p. 240 .—Edd.] 
Death of Lieutenant Boyd Alexander. —Most of our friends 
will already be acquainted with the sad news of the death 
of Lieutenant Boyd Alexander, who was killed on April 
the 2nd in a skirmish with the natives at Nyeri, some 60 or 
70 miles to the north-east of Abeshr, the capital of Wadai, 
while endeavouring to force his way from Lake Chad into 
the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. We hope to be able to give 
some account of the life and work of this great Explorer 
and Naturalist in our next number. 
A rare Jay in Berlin. —It appears from a notice in 
f The Field' (vol. cxv. p. 779) that a living example of the 
rare Jay, Garrulus lidthi , of the Looclioo Islands, has been 
lately received by the Zoological Garden of Berlin. This 
Jay was first described by Bonaparte in 1850, and was 
beautifully figured by Wolf in the Zoological Society’s 
f Proceedings' (1850, p. 80, pi. xvii.) from a single specimen 
in the collection of Prof, van Lidth de Jeude, of Utrecht. 
