SPICY ISLANDS. 



The next that may be fuppofed to belong to this genus, is King. 

 chiefly brought from ^rrou and Sopelo-o. It is called the King of 

 the Birds ofParadife, and by the people of Arrou, TVowi Wowi. 

 Our claffical ornithologifts ftyle it, after Linnaeus, Paradifea 

 regia, Le rot des oifeaux de paradis *. I do not know what title it 

 has to King, for it never aflbciates with any other fpecies, never 

 afpires to lofty trees, but flits folitary from bufli to bulli to feed 

 on berries. It is fuppofed to migrate to Arrou in the dry 

 monfoon, and to make its nefl in New Guinea. It is taken in 

 fnares oi Gumatty, or with bird-lime prepared from the juice of 

 Sukkom, bread fruit, or artocarpus communis. 



Notwithstanding voyagers give an exaa locality to the 

 different fpeci-es of thefe birds, I cannot readily affent to the opi- 

 nion, as the whole extent of the refidence of the genus is fo 

 fmall, that it is improbable but that each of them nuiftat times 

 trefpafs beyond their pretended bounds. 



The Arrou iflands have been under the jiirifdiaion of BanJa 

 fxnce the year 1623 ; they are low, flat, and well peopled with 

 blacks. It was reckoned that in 1703, there were about two 

 hundred and forty chriftians. Off one of the iflands is a 

 fifliery of fmall pearl, but the chief trade is Sago\ and flaves, 

 which they kidnap in New Guinea, and fell to the Dutch at 

 Banda. 



I AM fo deficient in materials, that I muft haften to the next 

 ifles, or thofe of Banda-, let me premife, that the intervening 

 expanfe of water, has fparingly fcattered over it feveral fmall 

 i'flands, diltant from each other, one of them called by Dam- 



* Sounerat, .1,56. tab. 95. p]. EnJ. 496. Edw. tab. iiL 



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