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XJromys nero. 

 ,, scaphacc. 

 „ naso. 



„ stalkeri calicUor. 

 ,, mollis. 

 Echymipera gargmitua. 

 Pliascogale murex aspera. 



In addition : — 



Pteropus Hops and Myotis stalkeri were discovered on Buru and the Key Islands 

 respectively by Mr. W. Stalker, and Faradoxurus kangeanus and Sciurus notatus 

 madurce on Kangean and Madura by Mr. G. C. Shortridge, on their way out to join 

 the first Expedition, Mr. C. B. Kloss also made a useful collection of small mammals 

 on Amboina. 



Altogether just over 600 mammals were collected by the members of the Expedition, 

 of which about 250 were got in New Guinea itself. 



The collectors who had special charge of the mammal work were, in the B. O. U. 

 Expedition, Mr. W. Stalker, who was most unfortunately drowned quite at the 

 beginning of the work, Mr. G. C. Shortridge, and Mr. C. H. B. Grant and, in 

 the Wollaston Expedition, Mr. C. B. Kloss. All of these workers are known to 

 mammalogists as experienced and successful collectors in other parts of the world, 

 so that one may be sure that everything possible was done to obtain a good series 

 of the mammals inhabiting the districts visited. 



The country explored by the Expeditions is that to the south of the Nassau Range, 

 or Snow Mountains, situated in the square bounded by 136° 30' and 137° 30' E., and 

 4° and 5° S. The first expedition, under Mr. W. Goodfellow, worked mainly on the 

 Mimika and Kamura Rivers and their tributaries towards the west of this square, the 

 second expedition under Dr. A, F. R. Wollaston on the Utakwa and its affluent 

 the Setakwa. Nearly all the collections were made in the swampy and water-logged 

 lowlands, the second expedition alone succeeding in attaining any considerable 

 elevation on the Snow Mountains (near Mt. Carstensz), and that for only a short time. 

 The Dutch Expedition under Dr. Lorentz worked up the Noord River, somewhat 

 further to the east. 



In the following list the species mentioned in Dr. Jentink's accounts * of the 

 Lorentz expeditions, but not obtained by the British collectors, are inserted in square 

 brackets. The list therefore includes all the mammals as yet recorded from this 

 part of New Guinea. Species of which the types were obtained by the Expeditions 

 are marked with a f. 



In this connection I should like to express my deep regret at the death of 



* ' Nova Guinea, Eesultats de I'ExpGdition acientiflqiie neerlandaise a la Nonvelle Guinee,' 4to, vol. ix. 

 pp. 1-14 (1908), and is. part 2, pp. 165-183 (1911). 



