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of 50 skins from various localities, which well illustrate its 
wide geographical range, namely :— 
Santander, Spain {Irby, 26tli June, 1876). 
Lake Baical ( Dybowski). 
Lower Pegu {Oates, Oct.-Feh.). 
South Tenasserim {Davison, Dec.-April). 
Malacca {Dr. Mainyay). 
Andamans (Wimberley , Dec.). 
Labuan {Everett). 
Manilla {Maitland Heriot ). 
Amoy, May; Chefoo, May; Canton, Oct. ( Sivinhoe ). 
Chinliiang, May {Rickett). 
S. Yezo, Japan, August. 
To these localities we may add Heligoland (see J. f. O. 1910, 
p. 415) and Hainan (Hartert, Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 229). 
The B.O.U. Expedition for the Exploration of Central 
New Guinea *.—The last letters from Mr. Goodfellow are 
dated on April 3rd from Dobo, Aroo Islands. He was then' 
on his way back from Amboina, where he had been obliged 
to go to hire some additional carriers; he had engaged 
twenty-four men from Banda, who seemed likely to do well. 
The “ base camp 33 of the Expedition had been removed from 
Wakatimi up the valley of the Mimika to Toupoue, a village 
about six miles from the mountain-range, where a new store¬ 
house had been built, and the natives were quite friendly. 
The Gurkhas had cut a road for some miles up the 
mountain, by which Mr. Wollaston and Capt. Bawling had 
reached a considerable altitude. During their ascent an 
important discovery was made—that at an elevation of about 
2000 feet there existed a tribe of pygmies, of which the average 
height was about 4 feet 3 inches. It had been generally 
supposed that there were no dwarf races in the Papuan Sub- 
region. 
Mr. C. H. B. Grant, a well-known collector, has been 
sent out by the Committee to replace Stalker (whose unfor¬ 
tunate death has been already reported *); he left England 
on June 18th for Singapore. 
* See above, p. 377. 
