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great number for food. I think the decrease ia the numbers 

 of this species might be put down to these two causes. 



Besides this Parrot I think I have a new Cinnyris. On 

 the whole I have made a representative collection, but there 

 are several species that I shall have to erase from the list 

 as not occurring on the islands. 



At the present moment I am in a camp 8000 feet up the 

 Kamerun Mountain. A week's work has given me some 

 very interesting species, quite peculiar to the locality. It is 

 a curious thing, but numbers of the Fernando Po species or 

 close allies, which one would have expected to find here, are 

 absent. I am now making my own road to the Peak, which 

 approaches this spot on the western side. 



Neivs of Mr. Walter Goodfelluic. — We have been favoured 

 with the sight of a letter from Mr. Goodfellow, dated 

 March 5th of this year, on which day he was encamped at 

 the village of Gossi-ossi, at a height of about 6000 feet in 

 the Owen-Stanley Range of British New Guinea, on a new 

 expedition to procure living Paradise-Birds. On this occasion 

 he had to surmount some difficulties in obtaining leave 

 to catch Paradise-Birds, as stringent regulations had been 

 passed to protect them. He had engaged the services of the 

 same native bird-catchers which he had last year, but was 

 taking them into a new district, and had had much difficulty 

 in crossing some of the mountain-streams, which were at 

 that time in flood. Mr. Goodfellow had found the dancing- 

 place of the Blue Bird-of-Paradise [Paradisornis rudolphi) 

 and had just succeeded in catching a fine female alive. He 

 was next proceeding to a district five days' journey farther 

 up, where he would be on a height of about 10,000 feet, and 

 expected to obtain specimens of the long-tailed Epimachus 

 meyeri and Astrapia stephanue. He felt confident that he 

 would be able to bring home pairs of all these three species, 

 and hoped also to get examples of Epimachus superbus and 

 of three species of Garden Bower-Birds which inhabit this 

 district — Anihlyornis subalaris, A.inornata, and A.jlavifrons. 

 Mr. Goodfellow's route this year was on the mountains east 

 of the main range. He was hoping to get away from Port 



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