NEW KINDS OF ANIMALS

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20887, 19 August 1939, Page 16 (Supplement)

NEW KINDS OF ANIMALS

Expedition’s Discoveries in Dutch New Guinea

Fifteen new mammals and 20 new i plants have been discovered in Dutch | New Guinea by a scientific expedition | led by Mr Richard Archbold, an American scientist. After travelling 0.000 miles to ] Dutch New Guinea and Australia and I back, Mr Archbold has arrived in New ] York in the flying-boat Cuba. During Hie expedition he scent 7000 hours in the air. { Leaving San Diego. California, on June 3, last year, the expedition flew ‘ across the Pacific to Hollandia. Dutch New Guinea. For nearly a year the Cuba transported supplies to a number of scienti- 1

fie ground parties in Hollandia, flying to the interior over treacherous mountain regions. During his 1.600 ft ascent of Mount Wilhehnina. Mr Archbold found a hitherto unknown bird, slightly larger than a sparrow with a bluish-black body and brilliant red patch on the throat. The expedition also discovered a settlement of 60,000 natives, who use stone implements and had never seen a white man, Mr Archbold is Research Associate in Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History.