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Thrush. Amboi}ia ; Latham, iii. 74. vii. 143. Seb. Muf. 62. fig. 4. Head, 



upper part of the body, primaries and tail, reddifli brown ; under 

 fide of the tail golden yellow; breaft and belly light yellow: 

 rather bigger than a lark; lings finely; flirts its tail quite on the 

 back in the feafon of love. 



Grosbeak. Molucca \ Latbam, iii. 141. PL Enl. 139. Forehead, front, and 



fides of the neck, black ; hind part of the head, back, and prinaa- 

 ries brown ; breaft and belly tranfverfely ftriped with black and 

 white ; tail and its coverts black. 



Takacre. Ambo'ma\ Lathamy iii. 244. Seb. Mus. i. tab. 38. fig. 6. Grown 



black ; back variegated with black and blue ; cheeks, throat, and 

 breaft blue ; coverts of the wings blue, marked with a purple 

 fiX)t ; belly white ; tail brown. 



pIGEo^?; Green Turtle; Latham, \v. 653. PL Enl. 653. Forehead and 



throat cinereous ; the predominant color of the reft of the bird 

 a green gold, glofled with copper ; on the front of the neck a 

 beautiful violet purple; length only feven inches and three 

 quarters. 



This makes thefum of the birds I can colled; in the iflands ; 

 the lift is fmall, but their beauty will compenfate. 



Reptiles. We know very little of their reptiles. The 50^ is found in 



Ternate, and other of the ifles, of a vaft fize. I fufpeit aifo 

 that the Cobra de capello., or Naja, inhabits Amboina. Rum- 

 phiuSj ii. 131, mentions the Munalatu, a broad-headed ferpent, a 

 moft dangerous kind ; the bite of which excites great heat, and 

 dreadful anxiety ; numbers of people die of the confequences ; 

 but it is curable with the root of the Soulamoe^ or Rex Amaroris, 



defcribed 



