252 Mr. V. Ti. Selater on liferent 



always prevented iny liniitcrs from going to the places where 

 it is easy to shoot. 



" The eggs of PtUorhis svperbus have been found by one of 

 Signer Bruijn's hunters. The nest was in the branches of a 

 tree called at Ternate ' Kaju Tjapilong/ which is the Calo- 

 phyllum inophyllum. At present I have not the eggs before 

 me; so I will write about them more fully another time, 

 when I have been able to examine the man who found thero. 



" Of Paradisea rubra I have only got some young specimens 

 from Waigiou, and otliers from Batanta, biit none in perfect 

 plumage. 



" The form of the trachea of Manucodia keraudreni is most 

 variable ; and the number of circumvolutions seems to change 

 with age, and to be a peculiarity of the male. On the labels 

 of those examined by me I have marked whether or not they 

 had the trachea external. 



" The Buceros ruficollis of New Guinea has the neck of a 

 much lighter colour than those from Ceram and Amboyna. 



" My collection of Papuan Psittacidse is very rich, and nearly 

 complete. You will find three specimens of Dasyptilus pec- 

 queti, two of which, females, were killed at Gunon Morait, 

 near Has ; the other, a male, on Mount Arfak. It lives on 

 fruit, and prefers that of a species of Sterculia, as I noted at 

 Gunon Morait, tearing the pericarp to get at the seeds. It 

 often goes in pairs, but sometimes in parties of three or four. 

 When alone it makes a loud and very harsh cry, which can 

 be heard at a great distance. Its tongue is not papillose or 

 brush-like, but callous. It is often kept in confinement, but 

 does not live long. It is very voracious, and may be fed on 

 bananas. Sometimes it descends to the plains, but generally 

 prefers the mountains from 2000 to 3000 feet. It has such a 

 tough skin that an ordinary charge of shot has little effect on 

 it, and it is usually only brought down by a blow on the head 

 or a broken wing. Most of the living birds, as well as the 

 skins prepared by natives, are got by the Ternate merchants 

 at Salwatti ; but all come from Has, and I do not yet know 

 whether the bird inhabits Salwatti. I was able to get speci- 

 mens of several kinds of Nasiterna. I shot some mvself ; 



