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end of Grilolo, and the adjacent island of Morti 

 (widch is really but a part of the northern pen- 

 insida), the voyage to Loi-d North's Island, and 

 thence to the Pelew group, would not be more 

 difficult to accomplish than the pii-atical expeditions 

 wMch even the Papuans, an inferior race, are kno^vn 

 to have made since the Dutch possessed the Mo- 

 luccas. 



The taxes on paradise-birds * and other articles, 

 levied on Papua and the islands near it, are obtained 

 by a fleet which is sent out each year from tbe port 

 of Tidore, and which, according to the of&cial re- 

 ports of the Butch, carries out the snltan*s orders in 

 such a manner that it is little better than a great 

 marauding expedition. 



But while we have been engaged in viewing tbe 

 scene before us, and recalling its history, the hours 

 have been gliding by, and we are admonished to 

 hasten down the moimtain by the approaching 

 night* Wlien we reached the village, I was shown 

 a remai'kable case of birth-mark on a young child, 

 whose father owned the snmmer-liouse we had just 

 visited higk up on the mountain. A short time pre- 



* Mr. A, R, Wallace, who baa travelled more widely than any otber 

 naturdist over the region where these magnificent birds are focmd, 

 gives the following complete list of the species now known, and the 

 places they inhabit: Arm Mmih, F, ^^)^a and P.regia; Misol, P. 

 regia and P. magr^^fkaj Wagiu, P. rultra/ Salwatti, P. reffia, P. mag- 

 i^fkOi J^pima^^ a0iM, and Smrnha aureus ; coast regions of New 

 Guinea generally, BpimaeJim aSms, and Sericulm aurem; central and 

 mountainoufl regions of the northern peninsula of New Gninea, Lopho^ 

 rirm mper^, PatvUa aexttdaem^ Asimpia tiiffra, Epifnachus moffnta, 

 Cra^edopfbora ^na^^ea, and probably I>iphylhidea Wilsonii and Para 

 digaUa earuneulata. 



