PREFACE. 
Tas Catalogue gives a list of all the specimens of Mammalia 
and Birds received from New Guinea, now in the Collection of 
the British Museum, and a list of the species which have been 
received from that country contained in other Collections, but 
which are now desiderata to the Museum. 
Tables are added showing the geographical distribution of 
the species of New Guinea and other neighbouring islands, and 
of the species found in those islands which have not yet been 
observed m New Guinea,—the specimens which are in the 
Museum from these various localities beg marked bya double 
star (**). 
Descriptions are given of several species which appear not to 
have been hitherto recorded. 
JOHN EDWARD GRAY. 
