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it, and found prepared for me a little house, consisting only of 

 a veranda and a back room. This was only intended for visit- 

 ors to rest in or to pass a night, but it suited me very well. 

 I was so imfortunate, however, as to lose both my hunters just 

 at this time. One had been left at Tondano with fever and 

 diarrhoea, and the other was attacked at Langowan with inflam- 

 mation of the chest, and, as his case looked rather bad, I had 

 him sent back to Menado. The people here were all so busy 

 with their rice-harvest, which it was important for them to fin- 

 ish owing to the early rains, that I could get no one to shoot 

 for me. 



During the three weeks that I staid at Panghu it rained 

 nearly every day, either in the afternoon only, or all day long ; 

 but there were generally a few hours' sunshine in the morn- 

 ing, and I took advantage of these to explore the roads and 

 paths, the rocks and ravines, in search of insects. These were 

 not very abundant, yet I saw enough to convince me that the 

 locality was a good one, had I been there at the beginning in- 

 stead of at the end of the dry season. The natives brought 

 me daily a few insects obtained at the sagueir palms, including 

 some fine Cetonias and stag-beetles. Two little boys were 

 very expert with the blow-jaipe, and brought me a good many 

 small birds, which they shot with pellets of clay. Among 

 these was a pretty little flower-pecker of a new species (Prio- 

 nochilus aureolimbatus), and several of the loveliest honey- 

 suckers I had yet seen. My general collection of birds was, 

 however, almost at a stand-still; for though I at length ob- 

 tained a man to shoot for me, he was not good for much, and 

 seldom brought me more than one bird a day. The best 

 thing he shot was the large and rare fruit-pigeon peculiar to 

 Northern Celebes (Carpophaga forsteni), which I had long 

 been seeking after. 



I was myself very successful in one beautiful group of in- 

 sects, the tiger-beetles, which seem more abundant and varied 

 here than anywhere else in the Archipelago. I first met with 

 them on a cutting in the road, where a hard clayey bank was 

 partially overgrown with mosses and small ferns. Here I 

 found running about a small olive-green species which never 

 took flight, and more rarely a fine purplish-black wingless in- 

 sect, which was always found motionless in crevices, and Avas 



