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us*, consists of 404 skins, belonging to 158 species, mostly 
from Halmaheira and New Guinea. Many of the new species 
recently described by Meyer and myself from the Arfak 
Mountains are contained in it, and there are besides many 
novelties of special interest, such as :— Nasiterna bruijni, a new 
pigmy Parrot from the Arfak Mountains, making the fourth 
of this extraordinary genus; Megalestes albonotatus , a new 
form of Muscicapidse allied to Philentoma from the same 
locality; and a new Ptilonopus (P. geminus) from Jobi. 
We must now pass on to the opposite extremity of New 
Guinea, and see what D'Albertis, who has established himself 
in a little island off the main coast, called Yule Island f, has 
been doing to advance ornithological science. Of D'Albertis's 
adventures we have several accounts :—first, his letters in 
Cora's f Cosmos/ in the article already referred to; secondly, 
some letters that have been published by Dr. Bennett in the 
f Sydney Morning Herald' of December 21st last, and of 
which Dr. Bennett has kindly sent me a copy; and thirdly, 
the account of his first collections in this district J, which has 
just been published by Salvadori. D'Albertis travelled by 
the Queensland mail from Batavia to Somerset, Cape York. 
After some weeks' sojourn there, he left on the 5th of 
March last, and, after touching at various islands in Torres 
Straits, arrived at Roro or Yule Island, situated on the 
coast of New Guinea at the entrance to Hall Bay (lat. 
8° 50' S., long. 146° 32 ; E.), on the 16th of the same month. 
Here he fixed his headquarters for exploring the opposite 
mainland, and has already succeeded in sending home several 
important collections, and making many noteworthy dis¬ 
coveries. Of his first ornithological exploits we have already 
* “ Catalogo di una collezione di uccelli del gruppo di Halmaheira e di 
varie localita della Papuasia, inyiati in dono al Museo Civico di Genova 
dal Sig. A. A. Bruijn.” Per T. Salvadori. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, vii. 
p. 749 (1875). 
t See letter from D’Albertis in P. Z. S. 1875, p. 530. 
t “ Catalogo di una colezione di uceelli dell’ Isola Yule e della vieina 
costa della penisola orientale della Nuova Guinea raccolti da L. M. 
B’Albertis.” Per T. Salvadori e L. M. D’Albertis. Ann. del Mus. Civ. 
di Genova, vii. p. 797. 
