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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ZOOLOGY OF NEW 



GUINEA. 

 Parts I and II. 



By E. P. Ramsay, P.L.S., Curator of the Australian Museum, 



Sydney. 



Containing a list of the Mammals (part I) and Birds (part II) 

 obtained during Mr. Goldie's second Expedition to New Guinea, 

 collected by Mr. Goldie, the leader of the Expedition, and Mr. 

 Alex. Morton, a collector from the Australian Museum, with 

 descriptions of some new birds recently forwarded to the Museum 

 by Mr. Kendal Broadbent, from the same localities. 



In May, 1877, the Trustees of the Australian Museum des- 

 patched one of their collectors, Mr. Alexander Morton, to New 

 Guinea ; an opportunity having offered for him to accompany 

 Mr. Andrew Goldie, who was starting to explore the South 

 Eastern portion of that great island, on behalf of R. B. Williams, 

 Esq., of Holloway Place, London. 



The following notes, then, are on the collections made by 

 Morton, and most of the remarks on the localities and habits of 

 the birds are from his note book. 



Mr. Goldie has also very liberally placed at my disposal the 

 very large collections of mammals, birds, and reptiles made by 

 himself and his collectors, Messrs. Shaw and Blunden, which is 

 without doubt the largest collection of Natural History and 

 Ethnological specimens yet made in those parts. 



Mr. Ingham and Mr. Kendal Broadbent have also been col- 

 lecting on the South East Coast, and as a portion of their col- 

 lections has been forwarded to me, I am enabled to enumerate a 

 few additional species ; a full account of this collection will be 

 given in another paper. 



Mr. Goldie's collection is by far the most important yet made on 

 the South East Coast ; and although not containing many new 

 species, yet from the large number of specimens which it contains, 



