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bright red— wings^. and tail black— lesst^r wing 

 coverts wiih a purplish gloss. Tlie O/ iolus gai- 

 buia, or Golden oriole — The Tt ogon sutpharcus, or 

 Sulphur cuructii— differs only from the Trogon 

 Sttlphumts of Spix id having the back glossy cop- 

 per coloured instead of glosjiy green — the Sam- 

 proiarius g^iiiartn of Temminck, or Paradlsea 

 guiaris of Latham, or Golden throated bird of 

 Paradise — the Ilirt/ndo Pamfyana or Panayan 

 swallow, — ^ihesc, and several other species of the 

 feathered creation, ^tash their splendid plumage 

 in the sun, or make the deeply shaded woods 

 re-echo with their song. 



Of Chelonian reptiles those found in the Pe- 

 uins-ula are the Cisluda Amhowftn\h', or Amboina 

 freshwater turtle — the Ckehnht Mydas, or Green 

 turtle, which is very abundant and esteemed a 

 great delicacy, and the Chdonia imbricata, ot 

 Hawks bdi turtle, which is not m common. 



Of the Suuriiin order there hihe A iUgator scie- 

 r0ps o( Cuvier, the A/H^ntor iattrta of Linnsaeus, or 

 the Common alligator, whrch infects t!ie rivers 

 and sea shores in gteat numbers, and may be seen 

 occasionally swiming up and down the Straitsj at 

 the distance of half a mile, or more, from the 

 shore —the Monitor elegatKv, or Elegant monitor 

 lizard — the Laetrta vindhs\ or green Uzard — llie 

 Draco ilmatus, (D. votmti, Lin.) or flying dragon 

 —the Geckii gtdtalm, or Spotted gecko, and the 

 Geclm tubercuiatus, or the Tokay, so called from 

 the sound which it emits, and which must be fa- 

 miliar to the ears of every one who has sojourned 

 in the Burman empire. 



Of anakes the following may be enumerated— 



