APPENDIX A 



NOTES ON THE BIRDS COLLECTED, BY THE B.O.U. 

 EXPEDITION TO DUTCH NEW GUINEA 



By W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT 



Our knowledge of the Birds of New Guinea is based 

 mainly on Count T. Salvadori's monumental work Oyni- 

 tologia delta Papuasia e delle Molluche, which appeared 

 in three large volumes in 1880-82, and on his Aggiiuiie 

 to the above work published in three parts in 1887-89. 

 Since that date our knowledge of the avi-fauna has 

 vastly increased and a very large number of splendid 

 Birds-of-Paradise and other remarkable new species have 

 been discovered. 



A list of the principal works subsequently published, 

 placed in chronological order, will be found at the end of 

 this chapter, the most important papers being no doubt 

 those by the Hon. Walter Rothschild and Dr. E. Hartert, 

 which have appeared from time to time in the Tring 

 Museum periodical NovUates ZoologiccB. Mr. Roth- 

 schild is to be congratulated on the success which has 

 attended the efforts of his various collectors in New 

 Guinea and on the energy which he has displayed in 

 obtaining birds from unknown districts of the most 

 interesting island in the world. 



To give in a single chapter a brief and partly scien- 

 tific, partly popular, summary of the ornithological work 

 accomplished by our Expedition in Dutch New Guinea is 

 a more difficult task than might be imagined, for there 

 is not only an immense number of species to be dealt 



