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After this Doherty returned home to America, but early 

 last year was again in England, and arranged to make a new 

 expedition to East Africa. lie left for Mombasa in March 

 1901, and was quickly at work up country, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Lake Naivasha and the Man Escarpment. Here it 

 was that he discovered the remarkable new Bush- Shrike, 

 Laniarivs dohertyi, which has been dedicated to his memory 

 by Mr. Rothschild (Bull. B. O. C. xi. p. 52). 



There arc now lying in the Tring Museum several parcels of 

 Doherty^s bird-skins from New Guinea, the Southern Philip- 

 pines and ]^]ast Africa, not yet worked out. Articles on these 

 collections, as also a more complete notice of the life and 

 labours of this active and successful naturalist, prepared by 

 ]\lr. Hartert, will shortly appear in ' Novitates Zoologicse/ 



Another formerly well-known ornithological collector whose 

 loss we have to deplore is the Cavaliere Luigi Maria 

 d'Albertis, one of the earliest explorers in New Guinea, who, 

 as we learn from ' The Geographical Journal ' (xviii, p. 629), 

 died at Sassari, in Sardinia, on the 2nd of September last. 

 D'Albertis's travels in New Guinea, of which he gave to the 

 ])ublic a full account in 1880 (/ New Guinea, what I did and 

 what I saw ' : 2 vols., London, Sampson Low), extended over 

 a period of five years. He first visited that country in 1872, 

 in company with Dr. Beccari, and on that occasion ascended 

 the Arfak Range and lived in a Papuan hut, at a height of 

 3600 feet, for about a month. Here he discovered the 

 beautiful Paradise-bird, Drepanornis albertisi Sclater, which 

 will worthily perpetuate his name, besides many other rare 

 birds. In 1875 d'Alberfcis resided for some months on Yule 

 Island, near Port Moresby, and in November of that year 

 joined Mr. McFarlane in a pioneer voyage up the Fly River. 

 During two subsequent visits, of which an account was given 

 to the world by the Geographical Society of London (see 

 Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. i. 1879, p. 4), this river was fully 

 explored and traced almost to its sources, and large collections 

 were made, which, we believe, are now, along with most of 

 d'Albertis's other specimens, in the Museo Civico of Genoa. 



