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genera, and most of them peculiar to the island ; two 

 parrots — the fine red-winged broad-tail (Platycercus vulne- 

 ratus), allied to an Australian species, and a green species 

 of the genus Geoffroyus. The Tropidorhynchus timorensis 

 was as ubiquitous and as noisy as I had found it at 

 Lombock ; and the Sphsecothera viridis, a curious green 

 oriole, with bare red orbits, was a great acquisition. There 

 were several pretty finches, warblers, and flycatchers, and 

 among them I obtained the elegant blue and red Cyornis 

 hyacinthina ; but I cannot recognise among my collections 

 the species mentioned by Dampier, who seems to have 

 been much struck by the number of small song-birds in 

 Timor. He says : " One sort of these pretty little birds 

 my men called the ringing bird, because it had six notes, 

 and always repeated all his notes twice, one after the 

 other, beginning high and shrill and ending low. The 

 bird was about the bigness of a lark, having a small sharp 

 black bill and blue wings, the head and breast were of a 

 pale red, and there was a blue streak about its neck." In 

 Semao monkeys are abundant. They are the common 

 hare-lipped monkey (Macacus cynomolgus), which is found 

 all over the western islands of the Archipelago, and may 

 have been introduced by natives, who often carry it about 

 captive. There are also some deer, but it is not quite 

 certain whether they are of the same species as are found 

 in Java. 



