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have no good material from there, tli(iii<rli Bniijn's hunters collected at Wandammen 

 skins were often received by the Dutch New (Juiuea ('onipiui}' from Taur; A. B. 

 Meyer collected at Snbi, and we received some skins bought by Doherty farther 

 north on the Waropen coast. Doherty writes : 



"Northern Wandammen is very thinly poimlated, and is quite without paths, 

 the mountains rising directly from the sea, and attaining, towards the south-east, 

 nearly tlie height of the Arfaks. They are uninhabited. In the south-west of 

 Wandammen, and again in the district called Waropen at the head of the Wand- 

 ammen Inlet (not to be confounded with the great Waropen east of Geelvink Bay !), 

 there are extensive marshy, forest-covered plains along the sea, very well suited to 

 sago cultivation, and consequently well inhabited, but I have no doubt very poor 

 places for a naturalist — like Takar, in fact. The Wandammen birds are all, I 

 am told, the same as the Arfak species, but east of Yaur another fauna is said 

 to begin." 



From the Ambemoh River we have a few skins collected by Dumas, the late 

 Mr. Everett's former companion. They were sent to us bv Mr. van Renesse van 

 Dnibenbode. Dnmas also sent a number of skins from near Humboldt Bay on the 

 north coast. 



Mr. AVilliam Doherty again had the opportunity to collect at Takar. He made 

 large collections there in ls9T, but a whole bo.x full of bird-skins was lost in the 

 surf, another got so wet that the contents suffered considerably. Doherty calls the 

 Takar trip a very trying one. They had three weeks' sea-voyage, his men sea-sick 

 all the time, three weeks' hard work at Takar, and three weeks' voyage again, the 

 men again sea-sick as usual. At Takar it rained nearly all the time. 



Doherty made the trip to Takar in the Zee Meeiiio (Captain Meyer), in company 

 of the Resident of Ternate, Mr. Horst. The Zee Meeuw, writes Dohertj^ " is a little 

 man-of-war. She rolls worse than any vessel I ever saw. My men had a perfect 

 horror of her. Otlierwise the triji was most pleasant, the Resident giving me all 

 possible help, and allowing the ship to he turned into a naturalist's laboratory. We 

 visited the little islands of Masi Masi, Mapia, Yamna, and Anus, near Takar, bat 

 found them wretched places for birds. At Kurudu illness prevented us from doing 

 much work. We also surveyed Tana Mera. The chief of Masi Masi and his 

 brother came with me to Takar, and were of great help : but for their wonderful 

 skill as canoe-men we should all be still at Takar, prisoners of the surf. The whole 

 of this coast is almost unapproachable on account of the Pacific swell, and I feel 

 that I got away very cheaply with the sacrifice of about the third of our catch, 

 including the only crown-pigeon. There were plenty, but we had no shot big 

 enongh to kill them on the high trees. At Tana Mera I would have done better, 

 but there was no chance of my getting away again if I had stopped. The Birds of 

 Paradise being mountain birds, we did very badly in them. We only got one 

 l>iph]illo(h's, a stray bird from the Wensudu mountains. Wensudu, being hUly, 

 would be a better place than Takar. I bought three birds from a native from 

 Wensudu, who had brought them to Yamna for sale." 



From Kaiser Wilhelm's Laud we have a number of birds from Konstantin- 

 hafen, collected by tiie lafc Mr. Knbary and the late Dr. Erik Nyman. Others 

 from Stephansort, Finschhafen, Simbang, and the Sattelberg, from Dr. Nyman 

 and Captains Webster and Cotton. 



It is most interesting to see how considerably the fauna of the shore of the 

 Huon Gulf (Simbang, Sattelberg, Finschhafen) differs from that of the Astrolabe 



