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swiftly in the clearings, and now and then settling for an 

 instant at puddles and muddy places, so that I only suc- 

 ceeded in capturing: two or three specimens. In some 

 other parts of the country I was assured it was abundant, 

 and a good many specimens have been sent to England ; 

 but as yet all have been males, and we are quite unablo 

 to conjecture what the female may be like, owing to the 

 extreme isolation of the species, and its want of cIosp 

 affinity to any other known inacct. 



One of the most curious and interesting reptiles wliich 

 I met witli in Borneo was a larfie tree-frog, which wiis 



brought nie by one of the Chinese workmen. He assured 

 me that he had seen it come down, in a slanting dii^ection, 

 from a high tree, as if it flew. On examinino: it, I found 



