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tract ; and on the same day my hunters went out to shoot 

 for the first time, and brought home a magnificent crown 

 pigeon and a few common birds. The next day they were 

 more successful, and I was delighted to see them return 

 with a Bird of Paradise in full plumage, a pair of the fine 

 Papuan lories (Lorius domicella), four other lories and 

 parroquets, a grackle (Gracula dumonti), a king-hunter 

 (Dacelo gaudichaudi), a racquet-tailed kingfisher (Tany- 

 siptera galatea), and two or three other birds of less beauty. 

 I went myself to visit the native village on the hill behind 

 Dorey, and took with me a small present of cloth, knives, 

 and beads, to secure the good-will of the .chief, and get 

 him to send some men to catch .©r shoot Mrds for me. 

 The houses were scattered about among rudely cultivated 

 clearings. Two which I visited consisted of a central 

 passage, on each side of which opened short passages, ad- 

 mitting to two rooms, each of which was a house accom- 

 modating a separate family. They were elevated at least 

 fifteen feet above the gromid, on a complete forest of poles, 

 and were so rude and dilapidated that some of the small 

 passages had openings in the floor of loose sticks, through 

 which a child might fall. The inhabitants seemed rather 

 uglier than those at Dorey village. They are, no doubt, 

 tlie true indigenes of this part of New Guinea, living in 

 the interior, and subsisting by cultivation and himting. 

 The Dorey men, on the other hand, are shore-dwellers, 



