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following morning he found it was cuius into gold, and 
broke off a bit and took it off to sell. On returning, he found 
appeared, and the family became co mpara atively poor again. 
The Paden Wangi very rarely з) vers (indeed I have never 
seen the flowers of it), and the male flowers are white and 
sweet-scented, like those of any ott Риха 
Recently a Javanese who wasin the Botanic gardens опа 
moonlight evening perceived on the stem of a wild fig-tree 
(Ficus Miguel) ataheight of about ten feet from the ground, a 
as bigas a large marigold. Not knowing the 
peculiarity of үне Gold flower, he went to call a companion to 
look at it, when it immediately vanished, nor bas it reappeared. 
It seems that the gold flower objects to a crowd, and will only 
be visible to certain fortunate persons, and this cooly, by calling 
just the kind of tree you would expect to find gold flowers on. 
Н.М, Е. 
marks оп the 
Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros Rhinoceros), 
and some other species mentioned in Mr. mengi Paper on 
the Birds of the Botanical Gardens 
нива of the Rhinoceros Hornbill in his interesting paper 
pes nri Birds, Mr. Ridley says, “The beak and casque 
land bene 
orange-red “nt id which colours the ` 
The e gland (uropygial) is above pit not below the tail; 
below is of course a lapsus calami. In a letter to Mr. Ridley 
I told him that I thought the red colour on the bill, thoug 
