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is nmcb virgin forest stiU left upon the hills, togetlier with 

 some of the oldest coffee-plantations in Java, where the 

 plants have attained almost the dimensions of forest trees. 

 About 500 feet below the summit level of the pass there 

 is a road-keeper's hut, half of which % hired for a fortnight, 

 as the country looked promising for making colJectiona, 

 1 almost immediately found that the productions of West 



Java were remarkably different from those of the eastern 

 part of the island; and that all the more remarkable and 

 characteristic Javanese birds and insects were to be found 

 here. On the very first day, my hnnters obtained for me the 

 elegant yellow and green trogon (Harpactes Keinwardti), the 

 gorgeous little minivet flycatcher (Pericrocotas niuiiatus), 

 which looks like a flame of fire as it flutters among the 

 hushes^ and the rare and ctuious black and crimson oriole 

 ( Analcipus sanguinolentus), aU of them species which are 



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