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beautiful little long-tailetl bii-d, ornamenteti with green, 

 i-ed, and blue colours, and quite new to ine. It was u 

 variety of tlie Charmosyna placeutis, one of the suiallest 

 and most elogant of tlui brnsb-ton<TUfid lories. Mj hiintei'S 

 soon shot me several other fiue birds, and I myself fouud 

 a specimen of the rare and beautiful day-Hying moth^ 

 Cocytia d'Ur\'illei. 



The villafre of Djilolo was formerly the chief residence 

 of the Sultaus of Ternate, till about eighty years a^o, when 

 at the request of the Dutch they removed to their ]jrasent 

 abode. The place was then no doubt much nuire po{>u- 

 lous as is indicated by the wide extent of cleared laud in 

 the neighbourhood, now covered with coai^e higli grass^ 

 very disagreeable to walk through, and uLterly barren to 

 the naturalist. A few days' exploring showed me that 

 only some small patches of forest remained for miles 

 round, and the result was a scarcity of insects and a very 

 limited variety of birds, which obliged me to change my 

 locality. There was another village called Ssihoe, to which 

 there was a road of about twelve miles overland, aurl this 

 had been recommended to lue as a good place for birdn, 

 and as possessing a large population both of Mahometans 

 and Alfuvos, which latter race I nmcli wislied to sec. 1 

 set ofi" one morning to examine this ^tl^ice myself, expect- 

 ing to pass through some extent of forest on my way. In 

 this however I was nmch disappointed, as the whole road 

 lies through grass and scrubby thickets, and it was only 

 after reaching the village of Salioe that some higli forest 

 land was perceived stretching towards the mountains to 

 the north of it. About half-way ^^'e liati to pass a deep 

 river on a bamboo raft, which almost sunk beneath us. 

 Thb stream was said to rise a long way otf to the 

 northward. 



Although Saboe did not at all appear what I expected, 

 I deterniiued to give it a trial, and a few days afterwards 

 obtained a boat to carry my things by sea while I walked 

 overland. A large house on the beach belonging to the 

 Sultan was ^ven me. It stood alone, and was quite open 

 on every side, so that little privacy could be had, but as 

 I only intt^nded to stay a short time 1 made it do. A very 

 few days dispelled all hopes I might have entertained of 



