wayside treos to the douse forost jfthado ; Bhoihulyies Mardi, 

 one of the cuckoo faniilj, with a lif^ht greeti bill, and vr^lvet 

 satrlet eye-watt)p ; and green and Idack barlx?ts, whoso peculiar 

 and iucesaant cries fillpd the air. 



In the open paths and gunny roads I netted smrlet Pieridm 

 (Ajypim nero)^ ofteu flying in flocks of over a score, exactly 

 matching in colour the fallen leaves, which it was amusing to 

 observe how oftf?n they mistook for one of their own fellows 

 at rest, an<l to watch the futile attentions of an amorous male 

 towards such a leaf moving slightly in the wind. Among the 

 Pieridm^ it has been said by Blr. Wallace tliat the male is as 

 a rule more conspicuous than the female ; but in this genus 

 Appim — with the exception of a little more black in the female, 

 the sexes of Appim rm'o are alike— the female is really, frc^ 

 queutly^ more conspieuonsly marked, and attracts the eye uu 

 the wing quite as readily as the male. Nearly all the specie'* 

 of Callidrt/as and Catojinilia, as 3lr. Buller has i>ointed out to 

 nie in specimens in the British Museum, have the females more 

 conspieuonsly marked than the males, Helwmda f^laueippe 

 and its allies may be instanciHl, and tlie genera Ganorh and 

 Belenms, as for example B. eudoxia and B, theora^ in the latter 

 of which only the female has the front wings orange. 



From Gedong-tntahan I moved a little fnrther west t<> Kotta- 

 djawa. All along the way crowds of Bueeros birds kept con- 

 stantly flying overhead with their peculiar noisy screaui and 

 the breeze-like whirr of their wings, while from far in the woods 

 cinne the softer koo-ow of the Argus pheasants, than which, 

 among all the feathered tribi'S, scarcely any bird is lovelier. 

 In Smnatra, the Argus occupies the place held in Java by the 

 Peacock— a binl belonging to the same natural family — which 

 seen in its native wildness is unsurpassed for brilliancy of 

 (^fdonr and decorative appendages, but its ornamentation is too 

 gaudy for long contemplation ; while in the case of th*' Argus 

 Pheasant one may admire feather by feather, and the same 

 feather again an<l again, and daily see new beauties. The tail 

 of the [x^M-ock is formed by a great development of what is 

 technically known as the upper tail coverts, w hile that of the 

 Argus pheasant is formed chiefly by an enormous elongation 

 of the two tail quills and of the secondary wing feathers, no 

 two of which are exactly the same; and the closer tlifv are 



