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planning to leave him. Being entirely naked they suffer 

 much from the cold, and the high ground, which is totally 

 uninhabited, is covered by almost impenetrable jungle. A 

 great export of skins of Birds-of-Paradise takes place from 

 Humboldt^s Bay, and the two Chinese traders living there 

 despatch about 1200 skins, chiefly of Paradisea minor, every 

 three months. 



Mr. Goodfellow had watched the display of the Lesser 

 Bird -of- Paradise, and had observed that mature and 

 immature males as Avell as females assemble together, and 

 that the females as well as the males were in the habit of 

 dancing, but that the dance of the latter was of a different 

 character. 



Subsequently he spent some time on the Island of Waigiou, 

 the home of Paradisea ruhra, and obtained living specimens 

 of that rare bird, which were safely brought to England. He 

 said that this species was rapidly being exterminated, as 

 young males and females were shot in addition to the tull- 

 plumaged males. Three months were then spent in Sorong, 

 whence vast numbers of skins of several species of Birds-of- 

 Paradise are exjsorted. There the natives kept numbers of 

 living Cassowaries, and over thirty examples of the one- 

 wattled species of all ages roamed about the village. 



After leaving North-west New Guinea, he visited the Aru 

 Islands and remained there four months, during which time 

 he obtained many living pairs of the King-Bird-of-Paradise. 

 He observed that P. apoda was being rapidly exterminated, 

 and the natives informed him that each year every full- 

 plumaged male was killed. From the six or seven districts 

 of North and West Dutch New Guinea, at a low estimate, 

 close on 20,000 skins of Paradise-Birds were annually 

 exported. The beautiful long-plumaged species P.johiensis 

 had been all but exterminated, and last year only 70 skins 

 were exported from Jobi, though all the natives were engaged 

 hunting for them. Now the hunters have to journey from 

 ,that island to the shores of Geelvink Bay in search of birds. 

 It would not be safe for any naturalist to stay on the island 

 of Jobi, as the natives are still extremely hostile. 



