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of 50 skins from various localities, which well illustrate its 

 wide geographical range, namely : — 



Santander, Spain [Irby, 26th June, 1876). 



Lake Baical (Dyboivski). 



Lower Pegu (Oates, Oct.-Felx). 



South Tenasserim (Damson, Dec-April). 



Malacca (Dr. Maingay). 



Andamans ( Wimberley, Dec). 



Labuan {Everetl). 



Manilla (Maitland Heriot). 



Amoy, May; Chefoo, May; Canton, Oct. (SwinJioc). 



Chinkiang, May (Rickett). 



S. Yezo, Japan, August. 



To these localities we may add Heligoland (see J. f. O. 1910, 

 p. 415) and Hainan (Hartert, Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 229). 



The B.O.U. Expedition for the ExjAoration of Central 

 Neiv Guinea *. — The last letters from Mr. Goodfellow are 

 dated on April 3rd from Dobo, Aroo Islands. He was then 

 on his way back from Amboina, where lie had been obliged 

 to go to hire some additional carriers ; he had engaged 

 twenty-four men from Banda, who seemed likely to do well. 

 The " base-camp" of the Expedition had been removed from 

 Wakatimi up the valley of the Mimika to Toupoue, a village 

 about six miles from the mountain-range, where a new store- 

 house had been built, and the natives were quite friendly. 



The Gurkhas had cut a road for some miles up the 

 mountain, by which Mr. "Wollaston and Capt. Bawling had 

 reached a considerable altitude. During their ascent an 

 important discovery was made — that at an elevation of about 

 2000 feet there existed a tribe of pygmies, of which the average 

 height was about 4 feet 3 inches. It had been generally 

 supposed that there were no dwarf races in the Papuan Sub- 

 region. 



Mr. C. II. B. Grant, a well-known collector, has been 

 sent out by the Committee to replace Stalker (whose unfor- 

 tunate death has been already reported*); he. left England 

 on June 18th for Singapore. 



* See above, p. 377. 



