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as the handsome Tenaris with black hind-wings and 

 large blue eyes, also of the chestnut-brown Tenaris, 

 rather large with yellow patch across the end of the 

 fore-wing and two large eyes on the underside of 

 the hind- wing. 



From Milne Bay I made a trip up the North-East 

 coast, where I found the natives were very wild. 

 My purpose was to buy curios and to collect specimens 

 of Birds of Paradise. The natives there at that time 

 had little or no iron, and were very keen on getting 

 anything either of iron or steel. With a small piece 

 of iron one could get very great quantities of native 

 shell-money, and rare curios which it is now almost 

 impossible to secure. The collections were fairly 

 satisfactory. 



Most previous collectors had used New Guinea 

 boys, who only shoot what they see, and do not 

 bother to ascertain the note of the bird. A New 

 Hebrides boy I had shooting on this trip, got very 

 many good things. He learned the notes of various 

 birds; then, when he came to a clearing, where he 

 could shoot without being too close, he would sit 

 down and call up the birds with their own note. He 

 was especially successful with ground-birds. 



I found that there were in this district two species 

 of Eupetes, one much larger than the other. The 



smaller is blue-slate with white throat. The other 







occurs at a much higher altitude, is much larger, 

 and differs from other species in having chestnut 



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