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examples of Paradisornis rudolphi, Astrarchia stephaniee, and 
Epimachus meyeri, and is now making preparations for the new 
Expedition to the Charles-Louis Mountains. He hopes to be 
able to start about the end of this month, and to be landed on 
the coast of New Guinea early in the following January. He 
will be accompanied by Captain Rawling as Surveyor and 
Dr. Eric Marshall as Assistant-Surveyor (who are delegated 
by the Royal Geographical Society to map this utterly 
unexplored country), Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston as Medical 
Officer and Botanist, and two taxidermists, Mr. G. C. Short- 
ridge and Mr. W. Stalker. 
The Committee of the B. O. U., who superintend the 
arrangements for the Expedition, consist of Dr. F. D. Godman 
(Chairman), Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant (Secretary), Mr. C. E. 
Fagan (Treasurer), Dr. Sclater, and Mr. Meade-Waldo. 
It will be recollected that the scheme of the Expedition 
was originally brought before the Special Jubilee Meeting 
of the B. O. U., held on December 9th, 1908, by Mr. Ogilvie- 
Grant, and unanimously approved (see 4 The Ibis/ 1908, 
Jubilee Supplement, p. 12 ; also Mr. Ogilvie-Grant’s appeal 
for assistance, 4 Ibis/ 1909, p. 194). 
News of Mr. Boyd Alexander. —After finishing his work 
in the islands of the Gulf of Guinea and on the Peak of 
Kamerun (see above, p. 564), Mr. Alexander went to the 
Maninguba Range in the interior of Kamerun, where he 
stayed for two weeks. In a letter to his father, which we 
have been kindly allowed to see, this is described as a very 
interesting mountain with two crater-lakes on its summit. 
His collecting work being now finished, Mr. Alexander 
determined to visit Lake Tchad again, 44 to see what it looks 
like in the rainy season,” and went straight across country 
to Ibi, on the Benue. Thence he took one of the Niger 
Company’s steamers up to Yola, where his letter was dated 
on August the 20th. A few days after that he was in¬ 
tending to start on a fifteen days’ march to Maifoni, and 
thence to prosecute his tour round Lake Tchad, After that 
