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cawing in these plantations; the curious wood-swallows 

 (Artami), which closely resemble swallows in their habits 

 and flight but differ much in form and structure, twitter 

 from the tree-tops ; while a lyre-tailed drongo-shrike, with 

 brilliant black plumage and milk-white eyes, continually 

 deceives the naturalist by the variety of its unmelodious 

 notes. 



In the more shady parts butterflies were tolerably 

 abundant ; the most common being species of Euplaea and 

 Danais, which frequent gardens and shrubberies, and 

 owing to their weak flight are easily captured. A beautiful 

 pale blue and black butterfly, which flutters along near 

 the ground among the thickets, and settles occasionally 

 upon flowers, was one of the most striking ; and scarcely 

 less so, was one with a rich orange band on a blackish 

 ground : these both belong to the Pieridae, the group that 

 contains our common white butterflies, although differing 

 so much from them in appearance. Both were quite new 

 to European naturalists. 1 Now and then I extended my 

 walks some miles further, to the only patch of true forest 

 I could find, accompanied by my two boys with guns and 

 insect-net. We used to start early, taking our breakfast 

 with us, and eating it wherever we could find shade and 

 water. At such times my Macassar boys would put a 

 minute fragment of rice and meat or fish on a leaf, and lay 

 1 The former has been named Eronia tritaea ; the latter Taehyris ithome. 



