454 Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^c. 



Patria of Cacatua gyraiiopis. — Mr. Alfred North (c/. 

 ' Nature/ vol. 1. p. 96^ 1894) states that living specimens of 

 the Naked-eyed Cockatoo {Cacatua gymnopis, Sclater), caught 

 near Burketown in North Queensland, were lately on view in 

 Sydney^ and that there are examples of it in the Macleay 

 Museum from the Gulf of Carpentaria and from Port Darwin, 

 and in the Australian Museum from Cambridge Gulf. The 

 note of interrogation in the record of the habitat for this 

 species given in the British Museum Catalogue (Psittaci, 

 p. 128) — " South Australia and also Northern and North-west 

 Australia ? " — may therefore be dropped. 



Ornithologists on their Travels. — Mr. Biittikofer, of the 

 Leyden Museum, is expected to return from his arduous 

 journey across Dutch Borneo in November next. He entered 

 the island at the port of Sambas on the north-west coast, 

 and has ascended the valley of the river Kapoeas. After 

 crossing the mountain-ranges of the interior and exploring 

 their zoological treasures he is expected to emerge at 

 Banjermassing in S.E. Borneo. 



Mr. A. B. Trevor-Batty e, of the B. O. U., has recently left 

 this country in a small steam-yacht bound for Kolguev [Russice 

 Kolgujcw) Island, off the coast of the Kanim Peninsula, in 

 the Arctic Ocean, where he hopes to arrive in time for the 

 breeding-season of the numerous birds said to be found 

 there. 



Undeterred by the fate of Bohm, Fischer, Hildebrandt, and 

 Emin, the German naturalists continue to pursue their inves- 

 tigations in Eastern Africa. Dr. Stuhlmann, having finished 

 the narrative of his last journey along with Emin Pasha, has 

 returned from Europe to Bagamoyo, and is employed in map- 

 ping the coast-line, but still collects as much as he can. 

 Dr. Oscar Neumann has left Irangi, and is somewhere in the 

 interior of East Africa, journeying from the south towards the 

 Victoria Nyanza. Herr Bohndorff is about to leave Europe 

 to collect in Usugara, and so on towards Kilimanjaro. 

 Dr. Kretzschmar, of Kiel, is likewise just departing for 

 Lamu, being associated with the free-land scheme of coloni- 



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