176 Obituary. 
After this Dolierty returned home to America, but early 
last year was again in England, and arranged to make a new- 
expedition to East Africa. He left for Mombasa in March 
1901, and was quickly at work up country, in the neighbour- 
hood of Lake Naivasha and the Man Escarpment. Here it 
was that he discovered the remarkable new Busb-Slirike, 
Laniarivs dohertyi, which has been dedicated to his memory 
by Mr. Rothschild (Bull. B. O. C. xi. p. 52). 
There are now lying in the Tring Museum several parcels of 
Doherty^s bird-skins from New Guinea, the Southern Philip- 
pines and East Africa, not yet worked out. Articles on these 
collections, as also a more complete notice of the life and 
labours of this active and successful naturalist, prepared by 
Mr. Hartert, will shortly appear in ' Novitates Zoologicae/ 
Another formerly well-known ornithological collector whose 
loss we have to deplore is the Cavaliere Luigi Maria 
d'Albertis, one of the earliest explorers in New Guinea, who, 
as we learn from ' Tbe Geographical Journal ' (xviii. p. 629), 
died at Sassari, in Sardinia, on the 2nd of September last. 
D'Albertis^'s travels in New Guinea, of which he gave to the 
public a full account in 1880 (/ New Guinea, what 1 did and 
what I saw ' : 2 vols., London, Sampson Low), extended over 
a period of five years. He first visited that country in 1872, 
in company with Dr. Beccari, and on that occasion ascended 
the Arfak Range and lived in a Papuan hut, at a height of 
3600 feet, for about a month. Here he discovered the 
beautiful Paradise-bird, Drepanornis albertisi Sclater, which 
will worthily perpetuate his name, besides many other rare 
birds. In 1875 d'Albertis resided for some months on Yule 
Island, near Port Moresby, and in November of that year 
joined Mr. McFarlane in a pioneer voyage up the Ely River. 
During two subsequent visits, of which an account was given 
to the world by the Geographical Society of London (see 
Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. i. 1879, p. 4), this river was fully 
explored and traced almost to its sources, and large collections 
were made, which, we believe, are now, along with most of 
d'Albertis^s other specimens, in the Museo Civico of Genoa. 
