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cattle, or still more to the Eland of South Africa. Their 

 Malay name signifies " forest ox," and they differ from very 

 small high-bred oxen principally by the low-hanging dew- 

 lap, and straight pointed horns which slope back over the 

 neck. I did not find the forest here so rich in insects as 

 I had expected, and my hunters got me very few birds, 

 but what they did obtain were very interesting. Among 

 these were the rare forest Kingfisher (Cittura cyanotis), 

 a small new species of Megapodius, and one specimen of 

 the large and interesting Maleo (Megacephalon rubripes), 

 to obtain which was one of my chief reasons for visiting 

 this district. Getting no more, however, after ten days' 

 search I removed to Licoupang, at the extremity of the 

 peninsula, a place celebrated for these birds, as well as for 

 the Babinisa and Sapi-utan. I found here Mr. Goldmann, 

 the eldest son of the Governor of the Moluccas, who was 

 superintending the establishment of some Government salt- 

 works. This was a better locality, and I obtained some 

 fine butterflies and very good birds, among which was 

 one more specimen of the rare ground dove (Phlegsenas 

 tristigmata), which I had first obtained near the Maros 

 waterfall in South Celebes. 



Hearing what I was particularly in search of, Mr. 

 Goldmann kindly offered to make a hunting-party to the 

 place where the " Maleos " are most abundant, a remote 

 and uninhabited sea-beach about twenty miles distant. 



