Occasional Notes. 151 



It is noteworthy that of the Pipreola whitelyi, which was 

 recently founded asanewspeciesby Salvin andGODMAN 

 for a very beautifully coloured bird colle6ted by Mr. 

 Henry Whitely in Guiana, there were two mounted 

 specimens in the British Guiana Museum, which must 

 have been placed there more than 16 years before the 

 species was described. 



Gold in British Guiana. — In a former number of 

 Timehri (No. xi, June, 1887, p. 136) an Occasional 

 Note was given on the slow but gradual increase of the 

 Gold Industry, and it is but fitting that a record should 

 here be made of its later development. With but scant 

 encouragement, and suffering under great disadvantages, 

 the industry may have said to have progressed by leaps 

 and bounds, as indicated by the returns to hand for the 

 different years. In 1885, according to official returns, 

 939 oz., were exported; in 1886, 6,518 oz. ; in 1887, 

 1 1,906 oz. ; in 1888, 14,670 oz. ; in 1889, 29,327 oz, ; and 

 in the first six months of the present year about 27,000 oz,, 

 valued at nearly $500,000, have been already obtained, 

 an amount not far short of the total output for 1889, 

 which in itself had been more than double that 

 obtained in the previous year. 



The industry has become a very considerable source of 

 income to the Government, for the royalty (at 90 cents 

 per oz)., within the six months, has amounted to nearly 

 $25,000 ; while but the merest nominal expenditure 

 on their part has been entailed. 



New mining regulations had been framed some three 

 years ago, but experience has shown them to be altogether 

 inadequate and unsatisfa6lory ; and while the Government, 



