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now forced to exist, and the probability of some of them 

 having since died out on the continent of India, sufficiently 

 accounts for the Javanese species being diffijrent. 



In my more special pursuits, I had very little success upon 

 the mountain, owing, perhaps, to the excessively unpropitious 

 weather and the shortness of my stay. At from 7000 to 

 8000 feet elevation, I obtained one of the most lovely of the 

 small-fruit 23igeons (Ptilonopus roseicollis), whose entire head 

 and neck are of an exquisite rosy pink color, contrasting finely 

 with its otherwise green plumage ; and on the very summit, 

 feeding on the ground among the strawberries that have been 

 planted there, I obtained a dull-colored thrush, with the form 

 and habits of a starling (Turdus fumidus). Insects were al- 

 most entirely absent, owing no doubt to the extreme damp- 

 ness, and I did not get a single butterfly the whole trip ; yet I 

 feel sui-e that, during the dry season, a week's residence on 

 this mountain would well repay the collector in every depart- 

 ment of natural history. 



After my return to Toego I endeavored to find another lo- 

 cality to collect in, and removed to a coflee-plantation some 

 miles to the north, and tried in succession higher and lower 

 stations on the mountain ; but I never succeeded in obtaining 

 insects in any abundance, and birds were far less plentiful than 

 on the Megamendong Mountain. The weather now became 

 more rainy than ever ; and as the wet season seemed to have 

 set in in earnest, I returned to Batavia, packed up and sent 

 off my collections, and left by steamer on November 1 for 

 Banca and Sumatra. 



