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of Turnstones ou the shores of the lake itself and more 

 Kentish Plovers breeding. The last day eight Grebes came 

 in from the sea, and I watched them for a long time, but 

 could not get at them ; they looked like the Eared Grebe. 

 From here I Avent via Arreceife to Teguise, and passed 

 through very uninteresting country, utterly barren save for 

 the corn which is grown in every possible place. I camped 

 at Teguise, and from there came on to this place — Haria 

 (1100 feet) — a beautifully situated town in a most fertile 

 valley teeming with birds. I have met with the Tit [Farus 

 c. degener) for the first time in this island and also the 

 Spectacled Warbler. I stay here three more days, and then 

 intend to work all the small islands if I can land on them. 

 It has been dreadfully rough at sea lately. I have just been 

 informed that Herr von Thanner has been taken ill at 

 Alegranzaand been obliged to return, so that I shall not 

 meet him as 1 had hoped. He had apparently only just 

 arrived. 



" I forgot to mention that I had shot two Pi'atincolcs on 

 the plain near Arreceife — a rare visitor to these shores, I 

 believe." 



The return of Mr. JVullaston's New Guinea Expedition. — 

 It was briefly announced in the last number of 'The Ibis' 

 that Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston had succeeded in reaching the 

 snow-line of Carstensz Peak at the end of February. Since 

 then Mr. Wollaston has returned to England with Mr. Kloss 

 and the collections, and has communicated the following 

 brief report on his expedition : — 



"The party consisted of Mr, C. B. Kloss, five Dyak 

 collectors, and seventy-four Dyak carriers, with an escort, 

 provided by the Dutch Government, of 130 men under 

 the command of Lieut. Van de Water. We left Java on 

 August 31, 1912, and arrived at the mouth of the Utakwa 

 River on Sept. 18. In seven days all our stores Avere landed 

 at our base-camp which was made about twenty miles 



