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great number for food. I think the decrease in the numbers 
of this species might be put down to these two causes. 
Besides this Parrot I think I have a new Cinnyris. On 
the whole I have made a representative collection, but there 
are several species that I shall have to erase from the list 
as not occurring on the islands. 
At the present moment I am in a camp 8000 feet up the 
Kamerun Mountain. A week's work has given me some 
very interesting species, quite peculiar to the locality. It is 
a curious thing, but numbers of the Fernando Po species or 
close allies, which one would have expected to find here, are 
absent. I am now making my own road to the Peak, which 
approaches this spot on the western side. 
News of Mr. Walter Goodfellow. —We have been favoured 
with the sight of a letter from Mr. Goodfellow, dated 
March 5th of this year, on which day he was encamped at 
the village of Gossi-ossi, at a height of about 6000 feet in 
the Owen-Stanley Range of British New Guinea, on a new 
expedition to procure living Paradise-Birds. On this occasion 
he had to surmount some difficulties in obtaining leave 
to catch Paradise-Birds, as stringent regulations had been 
passed to protect them. He had engaged the services of the 
same native bird-catchers which he had last year, but was 
taking them into a new district, and had had much difficulty 
in crossing some of the mountain-streams, which were at 
that time in flood. Mr. Goodfellow had found the dancing- 
place of the Blue Bird-of-Paradise ( Paradisornis rudolphi ) 
and had just succeeded in catching a fine female alive. He 
was next proceeding to a district five days' journey farther 
up, where he would be on a height of about 10,000 feet, and 
expected to obtain specimens of the long-tailed Epimachus 
meyeri and Astrapia stephaniee. He felt confident that he 
would be able to bring home pairs of all these three species, 
and hoped also to get examples of Epimachus superhus and 
of three species of Garden Bower-Birds which inhabit this 
district— Amblyornis suhalaris , A. inornata, and A.flavifrons . 
Mr. Goodfellow's route this year was on the mountains east 
of the main range. He was hoping to get away from Port 
ser. ix.— vol. hi. 2 P 
