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us^, consists of 404 skins, belonging to 158 species, mostly 

 from Halmaheira and New Guinea. Many of the new species 

 recently described by Meyer and myself from the Arfak 

 Mountains are contained in it, and there are besides many 

 novelties of special interest, such as : — Nasiterna bi'uijni, a new 

 pigmy Parrot from the Arfak Mountains, making the fourth 

 of this extraordinary genus; Megalestes albonotatus, a new 

 form of Muscicapidse allied to Philentoma from the same 

 locality; and a new Ptilonopus [P. geminus) from Jobi. 



We must now pass on to the opposite extremity of New 

 Guinea, and see what D'Albertis, who has established himself 

 in a little island off the main coast, called Yule Island f, has 

 been doing to advance ornithological science. Of D'Albertis's 

 adventures wc have several accounts : — first, his letters in 

 Cora's ' Cosmos," in the article already referred to ; secondly, 

 some letters that have been published by Dr. Bennett in the 

 'Sydney Morning Herald' of December 21st last, and of 

 which Dr. Bennett has kindly sent me a copy ; and thirdly, 

 the account of his first collections in this district %, which has 

 just been published by Salvadori. D'Albertis travelled by 

 the Queensland mail from Batavia to Somerset, Cape York. 

 After some weeks' sojourn there, he left on the 5th of 

 March last, and, after touching at various islands in Torres 

 Straits, arrived at Roro or Yule Island, situated on the 

 coast of New Guinea at the entrance to Hall Bay (lat, 

 8° 50' S., long. 146° 32' E.), on the 16th of the same month. 

 Here he fixed his headquarters for exploring the opposite 

 mainland, and has already succeeded in sending home several 

 important collections, and making many noteworthy dis- 

 coveries. Of his first ornithological exploits we have already 



* " Catalogo di una collezione di uccelli del gi'uppo di Halmaheira e di 

 varie localita della Papuasia, inviati in dono al Museo Civico di Genova 

 dal Sig. A. A. Biuijn." Per T. Salvadori. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, vii. 

 p. 749 (1875). 



t See letter from D'Albertia in P. Z. S. 1875, p. 530. 



X " Catalogo di una colezione di uccelli dell' Isola Yule e della vicina 

 costa della penisola orieutale della Nuova Guinea raccolti da L. M. 

 D'Albertis."' Per T. Salvadori e L. M. D'Albertis. Ann. del Mus. Civ. 

 di Genova, vii. p. 7!I7. 



