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altogether new to me, but they were generally so active 

 and shy as to render their capture a matter of great 

 difficulty. Almost the only good place for them was in 

 the dry beds of the streams in the forest, where, at clamp 

 places, muddy pools, or even on the dry rocks, all sorts of 

 insects could be found. In these rocky forests dwell some 

 of the finest butterflies in the world. Three species of 

 Ornithoptera, measuring seven or eight inches across the 

 wings, and beautifully marked with spots or masses of 

 satiny yellow on a black ground, wheel through the 

 thickets with a strong sailing flight. About the damp 

 places are swarms of the beautiful blue-banded Papilios, 

 miletus and telephus, the superb golden green P. macedon, 

 and the rare little swallow-tail Papilio rhesus, of all of 

 which, though very active, I succeeded in capturing fine 

 series of specimens. 



I have rarely enjoyed myself more than during my 

 residence here. As I sat taking my coffee at six in the 

 morning, rare birds would often be seen on some tree close 

 by, when I would hastily sally out in my slippers, and 

 perhaps secure a prize I' had been seeking after for weeks. 

 The great hornbills of Celebes (Buceros cassidix) would 

 often come with loud-flapping wings, and perch upon a 

 lofty tree just in front of me ; and the black baboon- 

 monkeys, Cynopithecus nigrescens, often stared down in 

 astonishment at such an intrusion into their domains ; 



