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is doubled over and tucked in under the lashing, in another 

 instance the tip is simply fastened like the quill end. What the 

 especial use of these arrows is, the bows used for them, the method 

 of releasing the arrow, their native name and other interesting 

 particulars still remain to be ascertained.* 



Mr. North offered some remarks on the great progress made in 

 Papuan ornithology of recent years, owing principally to the 

 large collections formed under the direction of the present 

 Administrator, Sir William Macgregor, K.C.M.G., during his 

 official visits to different parts of British New Guinea. Mr. C- 

 W. De Vis, the Curator of the Queensland Museum, who has had 

 the pleasure of working out these collections, contributes an 

 interesting paper to the July number of " The Ibis "f upon the 

 novelties discovered by Mr. A. Giulianetti during liis recent 

 journey from the Mambare River to the Yanapa River, in com- 

 pany with Sir William Macgregor. Mr. North pointed out, 

 however, that the specific name of the Flycatcher described by 

 Mr. DeVis on page 375 as Rhijndura albicauda, was preoccuj^ied 

 for a Central Australian species described by himself, | and he 

 therefore proposed to distinguish the White-tailed Flycatcher of 

 British New Guinea under the name of Rhipidura De Visi. 



Mr. North also exhibited a skin of the Freckled Duck (Sticto- 

 netta ncevosa), and remarked that specimens had been obtained 

 during the two previous months in several parts of New South 

 Wales, where they had not been observed for many years. 

 Portion of a skin of one of these Ducks, shot near Toowoomba, 



* P.S. — Since writing the above, I have been favoured by further infor- 

 mation received through Mr. S. Sinclair from Dr. J. Annaud, a missionary 

 stationed in the New Hebrides, who says of these arrows; — "They are not 

 in ordinary use, neither are they used in any particular way." — N.H 

 December 2nd, 1897. 



fDe Vis, Ibis, p. .371, (IS97). 



+ North, Ihis, p. 840, (1895). 



