Collection Of Rare Birds
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Prom Our Own Correspondent
Rabaul, Aug. 3.
MEMBERS of the Mt. Hagen-Sepik expedition (Messrs. Taylor, Black and Walsh) are busily engaged in Rabaul compiling their reports on the patrol into the new country around the Dutch border and the head-waters of the Sepik.
Whilst engaged in this work, a very fine collection of birds-of-paradise was ob tained. Some of the specimens have not as yet been classified, and are therefore of a rare variety. Rabaul people who have been shown them state that never be fore have they seen such beautiful birds.
We understand that these birds will be shipped to a Sydney museum. It is to be hoped that there they will only be treated and mounted and then returned to our own museum in Rabaul.