CJHAP. nr.] PHm'ICOPHAUS CALLIREYNCHUS, 2 1 7 



wholly to the insects. Scarcely had I entered tho forest 

 when I foimil some beautiful little green and gold speckled 

 weevils allied to the genus Pachyrhynchus, a group which 

 is almost, confined to the Philippine Islands, and is 

 quite unknown in Borneo, Java, or Malacca, The road 

 was sliady and apparently much trodden by hoi-sea and 

 cattle, and 1 quickly obtained some butterflies I had not 

 before met with. Soon a couple of reports were heainl, and 

 coming up to my boys I tbuud they had shot two speci- 

 mens of one of the finest of known cuckoos, Plia^nicophaua 

 callirhynchus. This bird derivci it^ name from its large 

 bill being coloured of a brilliant yelIow% riid, aud black, 

 m about equal proportions. The tiiil is exceedingly long, 

 and of a fine metallic purple, while the plnniage of the 

 body ig light coffee brown. It is one of the characteristic 

 hirds of the island of Celebes, to which it is confined- 

 After sauntering along for a couple of hours we reached 

 a small river, so deep that lioraes could only cross it by 

 swimming, so we had to turn lack ; but as we were getting 

 hungry, and the water of the almost stagnant river was 

 too muddy to drink, we w*ent towards a house a few 

 hundred yards off. In the plantation w^e saw a small 

 raised hut, which %ve thought \vould do well for us to 

 breakfast in, so I entered, and found inside a young woman 

 with an infant She handed me a jug of water, but looked 

 very much frightened. However, 1 sat down on the door- 

 step, and aske^l for the provisions. In handing tliem up, 

 Baderoon saw tho infant, and started back as if he had 

 seen a serpent. It tlien immediately struck me that thl^ 

 was a hut in which, as among the Dyaks of Borneo and 

 many otlier savage tribes, the women are secluded for some 

 time after the larth of their child, and that we did very 

 wrong to enter it; so we walked off and asked permission 

 to eat OUT breakfast iri the family mansion close at hand, 

 which was of course gmnted. While I ate, three men, 

 two women, and four cluldren watched every motion, and 

 never took eyes off me till I had finished. 



On our way back in the heat of the day I had the good 

 fortune to ca])ture three specimens of a tine Ornitboptera, 

 the largest, tlie most pertect, and tlie most heantifal ui 

 butterflies- 1 trembled with excitement as 1 took the first 



