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ornaments. Indeed, they are in those respects born artists, and are a much finer and more advanced race 

 than the Papuans. These islands furnish a vast number of beautiful species of Lepidoptera, especially moths 

 of many families. 



The headwaters of the Aroa River (in British N. Guinea) which debouche in the north of Redscar Bay, 

 are lined by extensive forests. This river is formed by the junction of two main branches, the Kabuna and 

 Veida. The latter reaches the mountains forming part of the Owen Stanley Range ; and the country at this point is 

 inhabited by a much more intelligent and energetic race than that of the coast. Mount Manaku to the east is over 

 6,000 feet in height. The Kabuna river runs through a mountainous country. The whole country eastwards is 

 filled with rugged mountains, in narrow parallal chains. About this district is the habitat of Sch. (Phalcenosoma) 

 Chimcera. Above this district up to 6,000 feet the vegetation consists chiefly of Cedars, Pines, Tree Ferns, Oaks, &c. 

 Many species of Birds of Paradise are found here. For interesting information respecting other parts of New Guinea 

 such as Geelvink Bay to Mac Cluer Gulf, Humboldt Bay and German New Guinea from Astrolabe Bay the reader will 

 find much that is valuable and instructive in the following works : — " P. E. Moolenburgh, Tijdschrift van het Nederl, 

 Aardijksk, Genootshaft No. 2 ;" " Bijdragen tot de Taal-Land-en Volkenkund van Nederlandsche, Indie, 1902, Nos. 

 1, 2 (The man of war Ceram Officer's report)." The journal of the Berlin Geographical Society, No. 3, 1898, with 

 Dr. Lauterbach's account of his successful exploration of the interior of German New Guinea in 1896. The Doctor 

 discovered and traced the course of the Ramu River — a district rich in plant and bird life. Also A E. Pratt's " Two 

 Years among N. Guinea Cannibals " (1906) ; R. Lovett's " Tamata ; " the same author's " Life and adventures of a 

 Christian Hero (the Rev. James Chalmers) " ; and Article and notes scattered through the later vols, of the Royal 

 Geographical Society's Proceedings," and "Australasia," Vol. II. by F. H. H. Guillemand (in the Compendium of 

 Geography and Travel of Stanford (1894). 



At Momos on the south coast of the island of Waigiou, east of Chabral Bay Guillemand of the Marchesa Expedi- 

 tion in 1889 saw multitudes of 0. Poseidon or a variety of it dashing through the woods at a fearful pace. It was here 

 also that the smallest of the birds of Paradise, Diphyllodes Wilsoni was met with. 



The number of species or varieties of species of Troides thus far known to exist in New Guinea (British, German 

 and Dutch), not including the neighbouring islands, is 21. The number of Birds is 770 species, as against 500 in 

 Australia, of which 40 are Birds of Paradise, and at least 300 are peculiar to this continent. Upwards of 400 vascular 

 plants are also found in this immense region. Mr. Meek, by the latest of his letters, is on the track of yet another 

 Ornithoptera probably of the Genus Schoenbergia. 



