ORNITHOLOGY OF SECTION D, 1850. 
tribe which inhabits the Prince of Wales Islands, and were unwilling 
to part with her; and she eseaped to us chiefly by appealing to their 
cupidity, and representing that she would get axes, &c., from the 
white men, whom she wanted to see only for an hour or so, after 
which she would return to her black friends. She is now little 
more than twenty-one years of age, having run away at fifteen, and 
although perfectly illiterate, is very sharp (colonial in fact), and 
has been very observant. From her, besides language, for which I 
became her pupil, I got much information regarding the manners, 
customs, &c., of the aborigines. 
“« The two Bats I sent from Cape York last year I take to be 
Molossus australis and a new Rhinolophus. I got one singular 
Bat there, a red coloured Harpyia, with tubular projecting nostrils, 
the size of a half grown rat; but when brought to me it was par- 
tially decomposed, having been shot some hours before, besides being 
riddled like a sieve. It presents a very woeful appearance in spirits, 
but I hope will still be sufficiently perfect. to be described on our 
return. I may get another at Cape York, as it is well known to the 
natives, who, upon at least one occasion, directed my attention to its 
ery. On our return from Cape York to Sydney, we called at Mount 
Earnest and Darnley Island, in the Straits, afterwards at one of the 
New Guinea and one of the Louisiade Islands, from the latter of 
which we made the best of our way to Sydney, leaving Yule in the 
Bramble to patch up the many holes in the badly constructed chart. 
We have now been here three weeks, the Bramble has not yet a 
‘rived, and our people are beginning to be apprehensive of accident. 
Captain Stanley was very ill during the passage down—in short, W4 
at one time in a very dangerous state, and has eyen now uot quite 
recovered ; of course, the news of his father’s death did not cout! 
bute to his recovery, We are now, in the absence of any orders ® 
the contrary, about to return to England via Cape York, Mauritius 
and Cape of Good Hope. -Thus, I shall be a second time dis?” 
pointed of my anticipated circumnavigation of the globe. We shal 
not start, however, it is said, until June,” 
T have thus given a cursory glance at the labours of Mr. M Gil 
livray as regards Quadrupeds and Birds, I know that his collectio" 
are equally rich in other departments ; and I need hardly say; Lal 
interesting it would be to science, if a careful resumé of what he has 
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