616 DR. F. H. H. GUILLEMARD ON BIRDS COLLECTED [Junel6, 



and named after the yacht), several specimens of "Wilson's Bird of 

 Paradise were obtained. In Waigiou, durin<;- the month of October, 

 we found many females and immature males of Paradisea rubra, 

 but the male in full plumage seemed very rare. Our search for the 

 lovely Bhipidornis gulieltm III. was quite unsuccessful, and though 

 I inquired of many natives concerning it, noue of them had any 

 knowledge of it. Leaving some hunters both in this island and 

 Salwatti, we proceded to Dorei Bay, where three Dutch missionaries 

 are stationed ; the only white men in the whole of Dutch New Guinea. 

 These gentlemen were of great help to us, and it was through their 

 assistance that we were able to obtain so large a collection of birds 

 from the slopes of the Arfak mountains ; a region that we ourselves 

 were unfortunately unable to visit in person, owing to our restricted 

 time and the fact that our flour and other provisions had already 

 come to an end. After visiting Jobi, an island that proved, ornitho- 

 logically speaking, very unproductive for us, save in specimens of 

 Paradisea minor, we returned to Dorei Bay. After a short stay for 

 arranging our Arfak specimens and various other purposes, we 

 proceeded on our return journey ; and on arriving at Samatee in the 

 island of Salwatti, we were pleased to find that our hunters had 

 succeeded in obtaining for us a living specimen of the exquisite 

 Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise {Seleucides nigricans). The island, 

 however, not proving very rich in bird-life, we decided to go south- 

 ward to Mysol, and found our way with some little difficulty through 

 a network of small islands and shoals to Efbee, a little village on the 

 south coast. Here we left five of our hunters with directions to 

 proceed if possible to the west part of that island, and, after making 

 a short survey of the harbour, we sailed for Amboina in order to re- 

 provision the ship. 



The Aru islands were the next localities visited by the ' Marchesa,' 

 but the result was singularly unsuccessful. The season was unhealthy, 

 and the ship's company suffered considerably from fever and scurvy. 

 We accordingly returned to Mysol, picked up the hunters we had 

 left upon the island, and, merely touching for a day or two at Batchian 

 en route, we anchored once more in the roadstead of Ternate. 



The collection thus obtained was a very large one, and numbered 

 examples of close on two hundred and thirty species, of which two 

 hundred and thirteen are noticed in the following pages. The col- 

 lection of the Birds of Paradise was an exceedingly rich one, consisting 

 of Parotia sexpennis, Lophorhina superba, Paradigalla caruncidata, 

 Astrapia nigra, Epimackus speciosus, Drepanornis ulbertisi and D. 

 bruijni,Ptiloris magnijica, Seleucides alba,Semioptera wallacei, Para- 

 disece minor, apoda, and rubra, Biphyllodes speciosa, chrysoptera, and 

 wilsoni, Cicinnurus regius, and Xanthomelus aureus. The series of 

 many of the above were very large, and the whole formed what is 

 without doubt the finest collection that has hitherto been brought 

 from New Guinea and its islands. But the thoroughness of the work 

 of previous explorers, such as Wallace, Beccari, Von Rosenberg, and 

 D'Albertis, is shown from the fact that among the many hundred 

 skins obtained by the ' Marchesa' s ' party, not one single new species 



