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Lake of Tondano, June ; Menado, March. 



Calls qua, qua, like a Crow. 



Flies alone. Sits much on a twig over or near the water, 

 bent together, but eagerly looking for food, and suddenly 

 rushing down on a fish or a crab. Also feeds on eggs of 

 freshwater fishes, especially of Ophiocephalus striatus (native 

 name, " Kobos "), which is common in the Lake of Tondano ; 

 but often the strong fish attacks the bird, and hinders it from 

 devoiiring the eggs. 



Builds its nest near the water in the reeds. 



BUBULCUS COROMANDUS (Bodd.). 



Native Malay name, " Sweko-puti,'' i. e. '' White Heron.'' 

 Alfurous name in the Minahassa, " Pokok-puti." 



Cry quak. 



Flies in flocks ', sits on bushes near the lakes, close on the 

 level of the water, looking out for Crustacea, which it quickly 

 picks up as soon as they come out of the water. Satiated, 

 they fly to pasture-ground, and sit on the backs of horses 

 and cattle, a curious sight. In the evening they assemble 

 and fly in troops to their roosting-places in the reeds. 

 They nest in the reeds, laying two or three eggs. 



The young ones have long, coarse, golden-yellow and hair- 

 like feathers. 



Melanopelargus episcopus (Bodd.). 



Not rare in the Gulf of Tomini, but rarely goes as far 

 north as Kema, where I got one specimen in May. Another 

 one I procured at the Lake of Limbotto in July, and one on 

 the Togian Islands in August. 



QUERQUEDULA CIRCIA (L.). 



Limbotto, July. Rather rare. 

 Mareca gibberifrons, Miill. 



Very common on the lakes of the Minahassa. Lake of 

 Lino, May ; Lake of Limbotto, July, in large flocks, 

 Dendrocygna vagans, Eytou. 

 Lake of Lino in May. 



PuFFiNUs LEUCOMELAS (Tcmm.). 



Jh". van ]\lusschenbrock informs rae that he ^oi a speci- 



