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journal commences with some ornithological contributions 

 from the editoi^'s pen. The newly discovered Bird of Para- 

 dise, Diphyllodts guliebni-tertii, is first described, and figured 

 in a plate to which we cannot accord much praise. Dr. 

 Beccari^s doubts about the true habitat of this species have 

 already been alluded to. Dr. Meyer gives it as Waigiou ; but 

 Dr. Beccari believes the species to be from Salawatti or the ad- 

 jacent district of New Guinea. Then follow descriptions of 

 four new Papuan birds, two of which are of great interest 

 as belonging to the northern genera Parus and Budytes. The 

 discovery of these forms in the Arfak Mountains is of special 

 interest when taken in connexion with Bcccari's having 

 found northern plants ( Vaccinium and Rhododendron) on the 

 same mountains. Other notes upon rare Papuan species, 

 amongst which are additional remarks upon the red and 

 green Parrots of the genus Eclectus, terminate Dr. Meyer's 

 most acceptable memoir. 



Herr von Rosenberg, the German naturalist who made 

 such splendid collections for the Leyden Museum, has also 

 lately issued a very interesting account of his two excursions 

 to New Guinea during his travels in the Eastern Archipelago. 

 The memoir is in Dutch, and is published at the Hague by 

 the Geogi'aphical and Ethnological Society of the Nether- 

 lands Indies^. Herr von Bosenberg's first journey to New 

 Guinea was at the end of 1868, when he left Tern ate in the 

 month of December, and went to Sorong and Dorey. Thence 

 he made an excursion to the islands in the Bay of Geelvink, 

 Soek, Biak, Mefoor, and Jobie, or " Jappen," as he terms it, 

 and returned to Ternate in July 1869. The second visit to 

 New Guinea was made in 1870, when large collections were 

 made at Andai, and Herr von Rosenberg's hunters penetrated 

 into the Arfak Mountains, and obtained the many novelties 

 which were described by Prof. Schlegel in his ' Obser- 



* Reistocbten naar de Geelvinkbaai op Nieuw-Guinea in de Jaren 

 1869 en 1870 door 0. B. H. von Rosenberg, ambtenaar belast met weten- 

 schappelijke onderzoekingen Nederlandsch-Indie. Uitgegeven door her 

 Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde van Neder- 

 laudsch-Iudie. Met Kaarten en Afbeeldingen. 'SGravenhage : Martinus 

 >ighofl'. 187."). 1 vol. 4to, pp. 154. 



