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and when one knows their haunts they are not difficult to 

 find. Their habit is to climb about the trunks of trees and 

 along the lianas. They are often caught alive by the Papuans 

 in the hollow trees where they make their nest. Nasiterna 

 geelvinkiana seems to me very distinct, on account of its spiny 

 tail. The species which inhabits JNIount Arfak also seems 

 to be separable. I did not get Cyclopsitta gulielmi-tertii ; but 

 several skins of it are in Bruijn's collection. Among the 

 Charmosynce I found C. arfaki common enough. Though it 

 seems strange, it is nevertheless true, that the green Eclecti 

 are males of the red ones. I learnt this at Aru from my 

 hunters; and the young have the same diliereuce. Is Micro- 

 glossum altcto ditferent from M. uterrimum ? 



" At Kordo 1 found a most beautiful Centropus. Of Cuculus 

 leucolophus I got one specimen, and there is anotlier in 

 Bruijn^s collection. It is one of the rarest birds of the 

 north-west peninsula of New Guinea. Chrysococcyx meyeri, 

 Salvad., seems to be found at Salwatti and at Kordo. If, 

 however, the specimens from that place do not belong to 

 another species, they are slightly different. 



" I paid special attention to the Pigeons, because they are 

 rarely preserved by the Ternate hunters, being too difficult to 

 skin, and too good to eat. Besides Ptilonopi bcUus, miquelri, 

 speciosus, musschenbroeckii, ornatus, pectoi'alis, humeralis, &c., 

 I found P. aurantiifrons and another, which I had found at 

 Aru. One, however, is unknown to me, viz. P. jobiensis, of 

 which there is one bad skin in Bruijn^s collection. Carpo- 

 phaga chalconota seems a good species. It is abundant at 

 Atam ; but I did not preserve many specimens, as it was the 

 principal resource of my table. 



" Of Gymnophups albertisi I only got two specimens. It is 

 a very rare species, though Sig. Bruijn's hunters got it, and 

 also those of tlie missionaries at Andai and Dorey. Henico- 

 phaps albifrons is a scattered species, and in some localities 

 not very rare, as also Eutrygon tevrestris, Avliich is more 

 common at Salwatti than elsewhere. I really think that 

 there is more than one species of Chalcophaps. C. stefani is 

 the commonest ; another kind I found at Miosnom and at 



