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journal commences witli some ornithological contributions 
from the editor's pen. The newly discovered Bird of Para¬ 
dise, Diphyllodes gulielmi-tertii } is first described, and figured 
in a plate to which we cannot accord much praise. Dr. 
Beccari's doubts about the true habitat of this species have 
already been alluded to. Dr. Meyer gives it as Waigiou; but 
Dr. Beccari believes the species to be from Salawatti or the ad¬ 
jacent district of New Guinea. Then follow descriptions of 
four new Papuan birds, two of which are of great interest 
as belonging to the northern genera Parus and Budytes. The 
discovery of these forms in the Arfak Mountains is of special 
interest when taken in connexion with Beccari's having 
found northern plants ( Vaccinium and Rhododendron) on the 
same mountains. Other notes upon rare Papuan species, 
amongst which are additional remarks upon the red and 
green Parrots of the genus Eclectus , terminate Dr. Meyer's 
most acceptable memoir. 
Herr von Rosenberg, the German naturalist who made 
such splendid collections for the Leyden Museum, has also 
lately issued a very interesting account of his two excursions 
to New Guinea during his travels in the Eastern Archipelago. 
The memoir is in Dutch, and is published at the Hague by 
the Geographical and Ethnological Society of the Nether¬ 
lands Indies*. Herr von Rosenberg's first journey to New 
Guinea was at the end of 1868, when he left Tern ate in the 
month of December, and went to Sorong and Dorey. Thence 
he made an excursion to the islands in the Bay of Geelvink, 
Soek, Biak, Mefoor, and Jobie, or “ Jappen," as he terms it, 
and returned to Ternate in July 1869. The second visit to 
New Guinea was made in 1870, when large collections were 
made at Andai, and Herr von Rosenberg's hunters penetrated 
into the Arfak Mountains, and obtained the many novelties 
which were described by Prof. Schlegel in his ‘ Obser- 
* Reistochten naar de Geelvinkbaai op Nieuw-Guinea in de Jaren 
1869 en 1870 door 0. B. H. von Rosenberg, ambtenaar belast met weteri- 
schappelijke onderzoekingen Nederlandsch-Indie. Uitgegeven door her 
Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde van Neder- 
landsch-Indie. Met Kaarten en Afbeeldingen. 'SGravenhage: Martinus 
Nighoff. 1875. 1 vol. 4to, pp. 154. 
