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the extremity of the peninsula, a place celebrated for these 

 birds, as well as for the babirfisa and sapi-utan. I found here 

 Mr. Goldmann, the eldest son of the Governor of the Moluc- 

 cas, Avho was superintending the establishment of some Gov- 

 ernment salt-works. This was a better locality, and I obtain- 

 ed some fine butterflies and very good birds, among which 

 was one more sj^ecimen of the rare ground-dove (Phlegsenas 

 tristigmata), which I had first obtained near the Maros water- 

 fall in South Celebes. 



Hearing what I was particularly in search of, Mr. Gold- 

 mann kindly o:^ered to make a hunting-party to the place 

 where the " maleos " ai"e most abundant, a remote and unin- 

 habited sea-beach about twenty miles distant. The climate 

 here was quite different to that on the mountains, not a drop 

 of rain having fallen for four months; so I made arrange- 

 ments to stay on the beach a week, in order to secure a good 

 number of sjiecimens. We went partly by boat and partly 

 through the forest, accompanied by the major, or head-man, 

 of Licoupang, with a dozen natives and about twenty dogs. 

 On the way they caught a young sapi-utan and five wild pigs. 

 Of the former I preserved the head. This animal is entirely 

 confined to the remote mountain forests of Celebes and one 

 or two adjacent islands which form part of the same groiip. 

 In the adults the head is black, with s^ white mai'k over each 

 eye, one on each cheek and another on the throat. The horns 

 are very smooth and sharp when young, but become thicker 

 and ridged at the bottom with age. Most naturalists consid- 

 er this curious animal to be a small ox, but from the character 

 of the horns, the fine coat of hair, and the descending dewlap, 

 it seemed closely to approach the antelopes. 



Arrived at our destination we built a hut and prepared for 

 a stay of some days, I to shoot and skin " maleos," Mr. Gold- 

 mann and the major to hunt wild pigs, babirusa, and sapi- 

 utan. The place is situated in the large bay between the' 

 islands of Limbe and Banca, and consists of a steej) beach 

 more than a mile in length, of deep, loose, and coarse black 

 volcanic sand or rather gravel, very fatiguing to walk over. 

 It is bounded at each extremity by a small river, with hilly 

 ground beyond, while the forest behind the beach itself is 

 tolerably level and its growth stunted. We have here proba- 



