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Show 616 DR. F. H . H. G U I L L E M A R D O N BIRDS C O L L E C T E D [June 16, and named after the yacht), several specimens of Wilson's Bird of Paradise were obtained. In Waigiou, during the month of October, we found many females and immature males of Paradisea rubra, but the male in full plumage seemed very rare. Our search for the lovely Rhipidornis gulielmi III. was quite unsuccessful, and though I inquired of many natives concerning it, none of them had any knowledge of it. Leaving some hunters both in this island and Salwatti, we proceded to Dorei Bay, where three Dutch missionaries are stationed ; the only white men in the whole of Dutch N e w Guinea. These gentlemen were of great help to us, and it was through their assistance that we were able to obtain so large a collection of birds from the slopes of the Arfak mountains ; a region that we ourselves were unfortunately unable to visit in person, owing to our restricted time and the fact that our flour and other provisions had already come to an end. After visiting Jobi, an island that proved, ornitho-logically speaking, very unproductive for us, save in specimens of Paradisea minor, we returned to Dorei Bay. After a short stay for arranging our Arfak specimens and various other purposes, we proceeded on our return journey ; and on arriving at Samatee in the island of Salwatti, we were pleased to find that our hunters had succeeded in obtaining for us a living specimen of the exquisite Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise (Seleucides nigricans). The island, however, not proving very rich in bird-life, we decided to go southward to Mysol, and found our way with some little difficulty through a network of small islands and shoals to Efbee, a little village on the south coast. Here we left five of our hunters with directions to proceed if possible to the west part of that island, and, after making a short survey of the harbour, we sailed for Amboina in order to re-provision the ship. The A m islands were the next localities visited by the ' Marchesa,' but the result was singularly unsuccessful. The season was unhealthy, and the ship's company suffered considerably from fever and scurvy. W e accordingly returned to Mysol, picked up the hunters we had left upon the island, and, merely touching for a day or two at Batchian en route, we anchored once more in the roadstead of Ternate. The collection thus obtained was a very large one, and numbered examples of close on two hundred and thirty species, of which two hundred and thirteen are noticed in the following pages. The collection of the Birds of Paradise was an exceedingly rich one, consisting of Parotia sexpennis, Lophorhina superba, Paradigalla carunculata, Astrapia nigra, Epimachus speciosus, Drepanornis ulbertisi and D. bruijni,Ptiloris magnified, Seleucides alba, Semioptera wallacei, Paradisea minor, apoda, and rubra, Diphyllodes speciosa, chrysoptera, and wilsoni, Cicinnurus regius, and Xanthomelus aureus. The series of many of the above were very large, and the whole formed what is without doubt the finest collection that has hitherto been brought from New Guinea and its islands. But the thoroughness of the work of previous explorers, such as Wallace, Beccari, Von Rosenberg, and D Albertis, is shown from the fact that among the many hundred skins obtained by the ' Marchesa's ' party, not one single new species |