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board what baggage I had left there, and bade adieu to 

 all my friends. We then crossed over to Menado, on our 

 way to Macassar and Java, and I finally quitted the 

 Moluccas, among whose luxuriant and beautiful islands I 

 had wandered for more than three years. 



My collections in Bourn, though not extensive, were of 

 considerable interest; for out of sixty-six species of birds 

 which I collected there, no less than seventeen were new, 

 or had not been previously found in any island of the 

 Moluccas. Among these were two kingfishers, Tanysip- 

 tera acis and Ceyx Cajeli ; a beautiful sunbird, Nectarinea 

 proserpina ; a handsome little black and white flycatcher, 

 Monarcha loricata, whose swelling throat was beautifully 

 scaled with metallic blue ; and several of less interest. I 

 also obtained a skull of the babirusa, one specimen of 

 which was killed by native hunters during my residence 

 at Cajeli. 



