PREFACE. 



This Catalogue gives a list of all the specimens of Mammalia 

 and Birds received from New Guinea, now in the Collection of 

 the British Museum, and a list of the species which have been 

 received from that country contained in other Collections, but 

 which are now desiderata to the Museum. 



Tables are added showing the geographical distribution of 

 the species of New Guinea and other neighbouring islands, and 

 of the species found in those islands which have not yet been 

 observed in New Guinea, — the specimens which are in the 

 Museum from these various localities being marked by a double 

 star (**). 



Descriptions are given of several species which appear not to 

 have been hitherto recorded. 



JOHN EDWARD GRAY. 



1 Dec. 1858. 



