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Salvin and Y. DuCane G-odman, by their correspondent Mr. 

 Groldie ; and I have again to thank them, as likewise Mr. Edward 

 Gerrard, Jun., into whose liands the collections subsequently 

 passed, for the favour of permitting me to make a complete list 

 of their contents before their dispersal. 



Two collections have been received from Mr. Goldie, the first 

 being a very large one, full of interesting birds, though the 

 number of novelties was comparatively small. The second was 

 less in extent, but nevertheless contained a few species which 

 were not in the former consignment. The point of most parti- 

 cular interest appears to me to be the discovery, in South-eastern 

 New Guinea, of several birds hitherto supposed to be peculiar to 

 the Arfak mountains, in the north-west part of the island, and 

 the disappearance, in the Astrolabe range, of much of the Austra- 

 lian and Aru-Islands element, to which one has got accustomed 

 in the collections made on the coast of South-eastern New G-uinea. 

 The nearest approach to the character of the present collections 

 is afforded by the one obtained by Signor d'Albertis up the Fly 

 Eriver ; and it would appear that the same type of bird-life 

 extends down the entire mountain-range which traverses the 

 length of New G-uinea. 



I have also thought it well to include in the present paper 

 some notes on a collection of birds forwarded to the British 

 Museum by Mr. Charles Hunstein, the discoverer of the wonder- 

 ful Clytoceyx rex described by me in 1880. I had prepared a 

 short report on Mr. Hunstein's collection, but was unable to 

 finish it, owing to domestic afiliction ; and the collection was un- 

 fortunately dispersed before I was able to communicate to the 

 Society a connected account of its contents. I have, however, 

 carefully preserved the notes that I copied from Mr. Hunstein's 

 MSS. ; and, as several new localities are recorded, it seems worth 

 while to publish them in the interests of geographical zoology. 



Lastly, I cannot conclude this brief introduction without re- 

 ferring to the splendid work on the ornithology of Papuasia, which 

 has been produced by Count Salvador! in 1881*. The great diffi- 

 culty in determining species of New-G-uinea birds has been ren- 

 dered comparatively easy by the publication of Count Salvadori's 

 volumes, which are remarkable for the erudition and care which has 

 accompanied their production. I have followed his classification 



* Published separately in two rolumes, and also printed in Mem. R. Accad. 

 Sci. Torino, ser. 2, torn, xxxiii., xsxiv. 



