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Jose Augusto db Sousa, one of the Conservators of the 

 National Museum at Lisbon, and specially in charge of the 

 collection of birds, died at Lisbon on the 13th of June last, 

 at the age of 52 years. When, on the death of Pedro V. of 

 Portugal in 1863, the zoological collections formed by that 

 monarch were transferred to the National Museum, Senhor 

 de Sousa, then one of the two conservators of the Royal 

 Gallery, entered the service of the museum and took charge 

 of the bird-collection. Since that period Senhor de Sousa 

 has been a frequeut contributor of short papers on ornitho- 

 logical subjects to the ' Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, 

 Physicas e Naturaes/ Most of these refer to specimens in 

 collections received by the National Museum from Angola, 

 Mozambique, and other Portuguese colonies in Africa. 

 Senhor de Sousa also contributed a paper on the ornithology 

 of Timor to the ' Bulletim da Sociedade de Geographia ' in 

 1883, and prepared catalogues of specimens of birds in the 

 National Museum of Lisbon — the Parrots and Birds of Prey 

 in 1869, and the Pigeons and Gallinaceous birds in 1873. 



Carl Hunstein, the well-known German bird-collector, 

 perished, as has been lately ascertained, in a cataclysm, on 

 the west coast of New Britain, on the 14th of March, 1888. 

 Hunstein was born about 45 years ago at Homburg, in 

 Hesse-Cassel, and although a man of good education and 

 some means, commenced life as a house-painter. Being 

 unable to indulge his love of sport and out-door life in 

 Europe, he emigrated to America and subsequently proceeded 

 by San Francisco to New Zealand, in order to join the Thames 

 Gold-fields diggings. Thence he passed to Queensland on a 

 similar occupation, and when the New Guinea gold-fever 

 broke out, joined the second or third lot of diggers who started 

 from Cookstown to Port Moresby. As is well known, the gold 

 in New Guinea proved a failure, and Hunstein took to his 

 old occupation of collecting specimens of natural history, 

 sometimes in company with Goldie or Captain Redlich and 

 at other times alone. Most of the discoveries commonly 

 attributed to Goldie are said to have been made by Hunstein, 



