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ON NEW-GUINEA BIRDS. 



NOTE XVII. 

 ON NEW-GUINEA BIRDS 



BY 



Dr. E. D. VAN OORT. 



(With 2 plates). 



Lately the Leyden Museum purchased from the zoological 

 collection of the Utrecht missionary-union some objects, 

 which give rise to the following lines. 



The Utrecht missionary-union had, during several years, 

 missionaries working on western New Guinea; they were 

 established at Andai and Doreh on the north-westcoast of 

 the Geelvink Bay. 



Two of these gentlemen, Mr. W. H. Woelders and Mr. 

 W. L. Jens, collected during their stay on New Guinea — 

 the first was at Andai from 1867 till 2 June 1892, when 

 he died there; the second was on New Guinea from the 

 year 1876, a short time on Mansinam, then a couple of 

 years at Andai and from 1880 till 1900 at Doreh, when 

 he returned to Europe — a good many natural history 

 objects in the Arfak district and sent these to Utrecht, 

 where the specimens were preserved, the mammals and 

 birds stuffed, in a small museum of the missionary-house, 

 while the duplicates were sold. Many years ago our Museum 

 had already purchased some of these duplicates; a few of 

 them are reported by the late Schlegel in his publications 

 as being purchased from a Dutch missionary stationed on 

 the eastern coast of the northwest peninsula of New Guinea. 



When last year the missonary-union took the resolution 

 to sell the collection still in its possession, we had the 

 opportunity to obtain, besides other animals, some stuffed 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. XXIX. 



