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storm. M. Radde will reach Mery in the course of the pre¬ 
sent month (May), and will then examine the mountains 
between the Murghab and Tejend. In July he will return 
to Askabad via Sarakhs, and then proceed through Kliorasan 
to Meshed. Before his final return to Europe M. Radde will 
visit Teheran. 
Mr. H. O. Forbes in New Guinea. —The last account of 
Mr. H. O. Forbes in South-eastern New Guinea states that he 
was in camp at Sogeri, fifty miles from Port Moresby, and 
intending to ascend Mount Owen Stanley when the season 
permitted. 
News of Mr. H. H. Johnston. —Mr. H. H. Johnston has 
settled himself in Mondole or Mondoli Island, in Ambas Bay, 
as H.B.M. Vice-Consul for the Cameroons, and sends us a 
good account of his health and prospects. Writing April 
13tli, he tells us that he has already found a collector, and is 
purposing to send him up the Cameroons with a staff of 
several natives as assistants as soon as possible. The only 
birds yet obtained on this mountain, so far as we know, are 
those collected by Sir R. Burton during his ascent in 1861, 
and described by George R. Gray in the Annals of Nat Hist, 
for that year (ser. 3, vol. x. p. 443). Where such curious 
birds as Strobilophaga burtoni occur we may reasonably 
expect further novelties. 
Rediscovery o/Platycercus unicolor.—Captain F.W. Hutton 
writes to us that a specimen of Platycercus unicolor, Vigors 
(P. Z. S. 1831, p. 24), has been received at the Christchurch 
Museum, from Antipodes Island, off the coast of New 
Zealand. This species was based by Vigors on a single 
specimen living in the Zoological Society^ Gardens in 1831, 
and subsequently transferred to the British Museum. For 
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