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collis), whose entire head and neck are of an exquisite 

 rosy pink colour, contrasting finely with its otherwise 

 green plumage ; and on the very summit, feeding on the 

 ground among the strawberries that have been planted 

 there, I obtained a dull-coloured thrush, with the form 

 and habits of a starling (Turdus fumidus). Insects were 

 almost entirely absent, owing no doubt to the extreme 

 dampness, and I did not get a single butterfly the whole 

 trip ; yet I feel sure that, during the dry season, a week's 

 residence on this mountain would well repay the collector 

 in every department of natural history. 



After my return to Toego, I endeavoured to find another 

 locality to collect in, and removed to a coffee-plantation 

 some miles to the north, and tried in succession higher 

 and lower stations on the mountain ; but I never suc- 

 ceeded in obtaining insects in any abundance, and birds 

 were far less plentiful than on the Megamendong Moun- 

 tain. The weather now became more rainy than ever, 

 and as the wet season seemed to have set in in earnest, 

 I returned to Batavia, packed up and sent off my col- 

 lections, and left by steamer on November 1st for Banca 

 and Sumatra. 



