112 Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, ^c. 
answer is, that in the whole mainland of New Guinea there is no 
other place where my life would be safe a week. It is a horribly 
wild country. You have no idea of the difficulties in the way 
of a single person doing anything in it. There are a few good 
birds at Dorey, but full half of the species are the same as at 
the Aru Islands, and there is much less variety. My best things 
are some new and rare Lories*.” In a letter written from Ter- 
nate in March last, before starting for Havre-Dorey, Mr. Wal¬ 
lace remarks, speaking of the Eastern tropics generally, “ This 
part of the world is very poor in species compared with South 
America. In Java, so rich, so varied, and so well explored, 
there are barely 300 species according to Muller, a number 
which any one spot in tropical America would probably furnish 
if well explored.” In the same letter, with reference to the dis¬ 
tribution of the Parrots, he says, “ The Psittacidce are very inter¬ 
esting. It is, however, almost impossible to get all the species 
of each locality, some being always scarce and difficult to shoot. 
The greatest confusion exists as to their distribution, owing to 
their being carried from island to island by the native traders. 
This I hope in a great measure to set to rights. Almost every 
island of any extent has some peculiar species, but there are 
others which extend over a considerable range of the Archipelago. 
The representative species in the different islands are often very 
closely allied. In Gilolo I have found the true Geoffroiius cya- 
neicollis, which is quite distinct from G. personatus of Amboyna, 
and also from the Aru species, which, if different, as I think, 
from the Amboyna one, is newt- In m y second Macassar 
collection I have sent a Trichoglossus%, which I think new—the 
most western of the genus. At Manado, in the north of Celebes, 
I shall find many of the rare birds which do not occur at Ma¬ 
cassar. I have a pair of the superb Pitta maxima of Forsten, 
* Among these is what Mr. Wallace thinks is a new species of Char- 
mosyna. 
t This will stand as Geoffroiius aruensis, having been described by 
Mr. G. R. Gray from Mr. Wallace’s specimens as Psittacus aruensis (Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 183). 
X The Trichoglossus from Macassar is T. ornatus. There are examples 
of this species in the Levden Museum from Celebes collected by Forsten, 
and from Bouton collected by Muller. 
