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head, and nape, and 

 some spots on the up- 

 per part of the back 

 and wings, are pure 

 azure bhie. The tail is 

 white, with the feath- 

 ers narrowly blue-edg- 

 ed, but the narrow part 

 of the long feathers is 

 rich blue. This was 

 an entirely new spe- 

 cies, and has been well 

 named after an ocean 

 goddess by Mr. R. G. 

 Gray. 



On Christmas-eve I 

 returned to Amboyna, 

 where I staid about ten 

 ten days with my kind 

 friend Dr. Mohnike. 

 Considering that I had 

 been away only twen- 

 ty days, and that on 

 five or six of those I 

 was prevented doing 

 any thing by the wet 

 weather and slight at- 

 tacks of fever, I had 

 made a very nice col- 

 lection of insects, com- 

 prising a much larger 

 proportion of large and 

 brilliant species than I 

 had ever before obtain- 

 ed in so short a time. 

 Of the beautiful met- 

 allic Buprestidte I had 

 about a dozen hand- 

 some species, yet in 

 the doctor's collection 



RACQUET-TAILED KINGFISHER. 



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