some new Paradise-birds. 
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previous experience that by this means only he could expect 
to make new discoveries, especially among the Paradise-birds. 
He went first, accompanied by only one native attendant, to 
the Astrolabe Mountains, which he had already repeatedly 
visited, and the inhabitants of which he knew well, and met 
with a friendly reception. 
The Astrolabe Mountains constitute a plateau, divided into 
two districts by a confluent of the Goldie river, the Laloki, 
which breaks out of them between two steep ridges of rock 
and forms below them the imposing “ Rona Falls/'’ These 
districts are called—that on the western side “ Taburi,” and 
that on the eastern “ Schogari.” It may be remarked that 
on the Astrolabe range, the height of which is given at 
3824 feet on the English charts, the nights are cold, and the 
constant precipitation makes a residence very unpleasant 
for the collector. 
After passing by the sources of the river tc Camp Welsh,” 
which flows into Hood Bay, Hunstein made his first halt at 
Moroke, the chief village of the district of the same name, 
and began his collecting there. Undeterred by the warnings 
of the natives, the bold explorer pushed forward thence into 
the Horseshoe Mountain, which lies between Mount Owen- 
Stanley and Mount Obree of the English charts, a region 
into which he, as in many other spots in New Guinea, was 
the first white man to place his foot. Here the vegetation was 
already sufficient to convince the practised eye that heights 
had been reached which had never before been attained by 
any collector in this district. There appeared a world of 
new trees and new plants. The discovery of a rhododendron 
with wonderful white flowers, which has been since described 
by our celebrated fellow-countryman, Baron v. Muller of 
Melbourne, leaves no doubt of the truth of this. Rhodo¬ 
dendrons have also been found in the Arfak Mountains, in 
North-western New Guinea. But the keen collector was 
rewarded not only by finding rare plants, but also by the 
discovery of new species of birds. Amongst those were 
three beautiful and previously unknown Paradise-birds, to 
which two more were afterwards added. 
