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sion, and felt much indebted to Mr. Belford for having 

 shown me the most interesting sight which I witnessed 

 during the whole of the expedition. 



This concludes my notes, which were taken under many 

 disadvantages incidental to a pioneer undertaking ; but if I 

 have given any new information on the subject of Paradise- 

 birds, be it ever so little, I shall feel that 1 have been well 

 rewarded for the hardships which I endured. 



XV. — On a Collection of Birds made by the late Mr. J. S. 

 Jameson on the Aruwhimi River, Upper Congo. By 

 Captain G. E. Shelley, F.Z.S. 



(Plate V.) 



In 1882 I had the pleasure of describing Mr. Jameson's orni- 

 thological collections from Matabele Land*. It is with the 

 greatest regret that I now have to give a final list of the birds 

 obtained by this ardent young naturalist during his residence 

 at Yambuya, on the Upper Congo, where he was stationed 

 with the rear guard of the Stanley Expedition for the relief 

 of Emin Pasha. His untimely death has been a loss to 

 science, wdiich naturalists will regret equally with the loss of 

 those scientific pioneers of ornithology in Eastern Africa, 

 Drs. G. A. Fischer and R. Bohm, both cut off in their prime, 

 when there was every reason to expect that their work had 

 only just commenced. Mr. Stanley is more celebrated as 

 an explorer than as a naturalist, and the unfortunate death 

 of Mr. Jameson, who would have contributed much to the 

 scientific interest of the expedition, is therefore the more 

 to be deplored. 



Small though the present collection be, it will be found to 

 be of great interest to students of Ethiopian ornithology, 

 and is in some respects extremely important as regards the 

 geographical distribution of species, as it serves to show how 

 small is our knowledge of the range of African birds, and 

 how little we are acquainted with the physical configuration 



* See ' Ibis,' 1882, pp. 230, 349. 



