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rare green jungle-fowl (Gallus furcatiis), whose back and neck 

 are beautifully scaled with bronzy feathers, and whose smooth- 

 edged oval comb is of a violet-purple color, changing to green 

 at the base. It is also remarkable in possessing a single 

 large wattle beneath its throat, brightly colored in three 

 patches of red, yellow, and blue. The common jungle-cock 

 (Gallus bankiva) was also obtained here. It is almost exact- 

 ly like a common game-cock, but the voice is diiferent, being- 

 much shorter and more abrupt ; whence its native name is 

 bekeko. Six different kinds of woodpeckers and four king- 

 fishers were found here, the fine hornbill (Buceros lunatus), 

 more than four feet long, and the pretty little lorikeet (Lori- 

 culus pusillus), scarcely more than as many inches. 



One morning, as I was preparing and arranging my speci- 

 mens, I was told there was to be a trial ; and presently four 

 or five men came in and squatted down on a mat under the 

 audience-shed in the court. The chief then came in with his 

 clerk, and sat down opposite them. Each spoke in turn, tell- 

 ing his own tale, and then I found out that those who first 

 entered were the prisoner, accuser, policemen, ai^d witness, 

 and that the prisoner was indicated solely by having a loose 

 piece of cord twined round his wrists, but not tied. It was 

 a case of robbery, and after the evidence was given and a few 

 questions had been asked by the chief, the accused said a few 

 words, and then sentence was pronounced, which was a fine. 

 The parties then got up and walked away together, seeming 

 quite friendly; and throughout there was nothing in the 

 manner of any one present indicating passion or ill-feeling — 

 a very good illustration of the Malayan type of character. 



In a month's collecting at Wonosalem and Djapannan I 

 accumulated ninety-eight species of birds, but a most misera- 

 ble lot of insects. I then determined to leave East Java and 

 try the more moist and luxuriant districts at the western ex- 

 tremity of the island. I returned to Sourabaya by water in 

 a roomy boat, which brought myself, servants, and baggage 

 at one-fifth the expense it had cost me to come to Modjo- 

 kerto. The river has been rendered navigable by being care- 

 fully banked up, but with the usual effect of rendering the 

 adjacent country liable occasionally to severe floods. An 

 immense trafiic passes down this river; and at a lock we 



