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Baj' (Konstantinhafen, Stephansort). Either the Finisterre Mountains or the 

 Rawliiison Range seem to effect a bonndary. From ITew Britain (Neu Pommern) 

 and New Ireland (Neu Mecklenburg) we have only odds and ends, dnplicates from 

 the late Herr Th. Kleinschmidt, from an orchid-hunter, and so on. From New 

 Hanover we received a small collection from Captain Cayley Webster, which 

 Hartert has described in the Appendix to Captain Webster's book, " Through 

 New Guinea." This collection contained some interesting new forms, such as 

 a remarkable Kingfisher and a NuMtrrna. From the northern coasts of British 

 New Guinea we have an interesting collection from Mr. Albert S. Meek, from 

 Collingwood Bay and Milne Bay. The fauna of these places resembles that of the 

 shores of Hnon (inlf. Mr. Albert S. Meek sent us also large collections from 

 Trobriand, Egum, Goodeuongh, :uid Fergusson (the two northern islands of the 

 D'Fntrecasteanx group), Woodlark and the Louisiade Islands. 



From the mountains of British New Guinea we have received a considerable 

 number of important contributions. Tlie more important ones are the collections 

 made by a half-caste gentleman, named Anthony, in the SEailu district, inland of 

 Orangery Bay; in the Bafa district, between Mounts Ale.xander and Bellamy, at 

 elevations of from 5UUU to (JOUU ft. ; the Oriori and Moroka districts, on Mount 

 Scratchley and in other places of the Owen Stanley Range. Others have been 

 received from the London merchant firm of Mcllwraith & McEcharn, which were 

 collected by various Europeans and natives; others were gathered by Emil Weiske 

 and his brother on the Upper Brown River and Area River ; others by Mr. Lix, 

 at Nicura, near Redscar Bay. 



Single specimens were jiurchased from various sources, especially some collected 

 by Dr. H. 0. Forbes, and by Goldie and Hunstein in British New Guinea. 



Thanks to D'Abertis's energy and industry in the field, and the standard works 

 on his collections by our friend Count Salvadori, we are well acquainted with the 

 birds of the Ply River ; but Fly River birds are sadly absent from the Tring 

 collections. 



No collector, nor, in fact, any traveller has even touched the C'harles Louis 

 Mountains, or the wide country between the lower Araberuoh and Fly River I The 

 extent of the Fly River fauna is therefore unknown. 



The birds from the Am Islands are fairly well known. Besides some smaller col- 

 lections made by William Doherty and Captain Cayley Webster (cf. Nov. Zool. 1890, 

 p. 534), we have quite recently received a good Aru collection from Mr. Heinrich Kiihn. 

 The Aru fauna is exceedingly similar to that of New Guinea, esj)ecially that of the 

 Fly River plains. Though not nearer to New Guinea than the Key Islands, Aru is 

 not separated from New Guinea by deej) sea, the sea being very shallow, while there 

 is deep sea between Aru and Key. There are, nevertheless, a considerable number 

 of forms which are quite restricted to the Aru group, though generally represented 

 by very closely allied ones in New Guinea. The following notes of interest are 

 extracted from K^iihn's letters: — 



" I have collected at Dobbo, on the small island of Wammar (or Wammer), on 

 the west side of Wokam (or Vokan), on the north and south coast of Kobroor, on 

 Pulo Babi, and in the middle of Trangan. The shooting season for the Great Bird 

 of Paradise was unfortunately over. I was told that no birds ha<l been shot this 

 year on Trangan, so there I went, though the men were much afraid on account of 

 some recent murders and quarrels on Trangan. As you {jrobabiy know, the single 

 shooting districts and trees, where the Paradise Birds come in the pairing season to 



