I UPS. 



Insects. 



Crocodile. 



MALAYAN ISLES. 



paflixge are often fecn dipping into the fea, probably to fnatch up 

 the fmaller fiflies. 



It is very difficult to afcertain the birds ; I can readily fuppofe 

 them to be the fame with thofe of India, or the neighboring 

 illands. I fliall mention only two ; one, the fcarce fpecies the 

 j4rgus Pbeafant, fpoken of before among the Cbinefe birds *; I here 

 add, that it is very common in the woods of Sumatra, &:c. 



The other bird is the CaJJ'owary, Latham, iii. p. lo. tab. 72. 

 This curious genus is related to the Oftrich, but is moft local, 

 being confined to the torrid zone, and only to that part which 

 includes this ifland, Java, Banda, and a few others of this great 

 Archipelago. It runs faft, is very fierce when in the wild ftate ; 

 grunts like a hog, and will kick violently like the Oftrich. Its 

 food is vegetables, but will fwallow iron, ftones, or any thing that 

 is offered. 



I SHALL take notice of only one infecTt, which is the common 

 bee, the Apis Mellijica, which in thefe hot countries is left to it- 

 felf unhived. Vaft quantities of the wax is exported to China, 

 Bengal, and other parts of India ; as to the honey it is far inferior 

 to the European kind. 



1 MAT mention that among the lizards is the Crocodile, which 

 makes dreadful havock among the bathers, who cannot be per- 

 fuaded from the performance of that rite notwithftanding the 

 danger ; befides, they look upon thefe terrible reptiles with a de- 

 gree of rcfpect, probably for the fame reafon as they do the 

 tiger. 



Sumatra ftill wants its florift. I mud content myfelf with 



* Outlines of the Globe, vol. iii. p. 195. 



giving 



