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Further Notes on the Black-ivhiged Lory. 
many more rare birds, they died during the voyage, solely I 
believe from want of attention, These three birds lived chiefly 
on bananas, and always enjoyed the best of liealth, bathing 
regular!}' every day. In Australia I tried them with many kinds 
of fruit, but bananas and oranges were the only kinds they 
■would eat.* 
The home of this species appears to be the North Coast 
of Dutch New Guinea, though the Brit. Mus. Catalogue does not 
mention its coming from the mainland, naming only islands in 
Geelvink Bay. The only part I have met with it is around the 
group of coast villages called Manoekwarri (formerly Doreh) 
where Dr. A. R. Wallace passed many months some jSfty odd 
years ago. This is on the N.W. shore of Geelvink Bay. During 
one of my visits there, certain trees bearing bright scarlet flowers 
were absolutely alive with them as long as the flowers lasted. 
Probably at any other season not one would be found in that 
district at all. All over New Guinea I have remarked the same 
thing with other Lories. Three years ago I obtained a living 
Dusky, or White-backed Lory as I have heard it called recentl}'. 
Eos fiiscata on the West Coast, which up to that time I had never 
met with iu a wild stale, or, as a matter of fact, in captivity 
either. Last year, in the Astrolabe Mountains of S.E. British 
New Guinea, I shot a single specimen, the only one I saw during 
a stay of several months. In passing through the same country 
this year, on my way to the Owen Stanley Range, I saw many 
hundreds of them. Every daj' they were there in the same 
flowering trees, from early morning until nearly mid-da}', when 
they retired for a siesta to theshadier jungle near by, returning to 
feed again shortly before four o'clock. Three months later, on 
returning to the coast by the same route, I neither saw nor heard 
a sound of one in that district. The flowers being finished they 
had probably gone to another part of the country entirely. 
Three more Black-winged Lories came into my possession 
nearly four years ago, and were all procured at Manoekwarri on 
my way to and from Humbolt's Bay. Tlie first of the.se, a very 
fine female, as I found it out to be later, was the finest specimen 
I have seen. A native brought it to the steamer to sell, tied by 
* At tliis time I had not discovered the value of condensed milk as a food for tliem.— \V. G. 
