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the unexplored forests of a new locality is a moment of 

 intense interest to. the naturalist, as it is almost sure to 

 furnish him with somethiug curious or hitherto unknown. 

 The first thing I saw here was a flock of small parroquets, 

 of which I shot a pair, and was pleased to find a most 

 beautiful little long-tailed bird, ornamented with green, 

 red, and blue colours, and quite new to me. It was a 

 variety of the Charmosyiia placentis, one of the smallest 

 and most elegant of the biush-tongued lories. My hunters 

 soon shot me several other fine birds, and I myself found 

 a specimen of the rare and beautiful day-flying moth, 

 Cocytia d'Urvillei. 



The village of Djilolo was formerly the chief residence 

 of the Sultans of Ternate, till about eighty years ago, when 

 at the request of the Dutch they removed to their present 

 abode. The place was then no doubt much more popu- 

 lous, as is indicated by the wide extent of cleared land in 

 the neighbourhood, now covered with coarse high grass, 

 very disagreeable to walk through, and utterly barren to 

 the naturalist. A few days' exploring showed me that 

 only some small patches of forest remained for miles 

 round, and the result was a scarcity of insects and a very 

 limited variety of birds, which obliged me to change my 

 locality. There was another village called Sahoe, to which 

 there was a road of about twelve miles overland, and this 

 had been recommended to me as a good place for birds, 



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