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SUMATRA. 
There is a great variety of the ftork kind; fome of prodigious iize, 
and other wife curious; as the hoor&ng camOm^f and boorong-oolar. Of 
doves there are are two fpccleSi which have many varieties; the one 
brown, called Galium , and the other green, CdWcd po&m. The paom -J ambco 
is a very beautiful bird. It is fmallcr than the ufual fize of doves: the 
back, wings, and tail are green : the breaft and crop arc white, but the 
front of the latter has a light Ibade of pink : the forepart of the head 
is of a deep pink, refembiing the bloflbiii of the jam boo fruit, froni 
whence it's name : the white of the breaft is continued in a narrow ftreak; 
having the green on one fide and pink on the other; half round the eye, 
which Is large, full, and yellow; of which color is alio the beak. They 
will live upon boiled rice, and paddee; but their favorite food, when 
wild, is the berry of the rum-poomi doubtlefs therefore lb called. 
Of the parrot kind are many fpecies ; as the ka^kay^ cocatoa ; parro- 
quet, and Uory, There are alfo, the kite; crow (gngha) ; plover (the* 
rcoHng); fnipe-, quail (cooyoo)i wild duck; teal (lektbeeji water-hen j 
lark; fca-lark; curlew; domefttc hen f^.-^tfjf/J, fome with black bones, 
and fome of the fort we call Freezlaiu! or negro fowls; hen of the woods 
(ayam barmg0) \ the jag& breed of fowls, which abound in the fouthern 
end of Sumatra, and weftern of Java, are remarkably large : I have 
feen a cock peck off of a common dining table : when fatigued, they 
fit down on the firft joint of the leg, and are then taller than the com- 
mon fowls. It is ftrange if the fame country, Bantam* produces like- 
wife the diminutive breed that goes by that name, Paddee bird^ (IcO' 
rcngpeipee)y fometh in g like our fpar rows, are in great plenty, and de- 
flroy the grain. The dial (mcsri) has a pretty, but ihort note ; there 
being no bird on the illand which iings. The minor (teiong) has the 
faculty of imitating human {]>eech, in greater perfe^ion than any other 
of the feathered tribe: there are both black, and yellow of them* 
O^ls, particularly the great horned one; ftarllng; kingfiflier; fwallow 
(lyang); enga^g, or rhinoceros bird: this is cbieEy remarkable for what 
is called the horn, which reaches half way down the bill, and then turns 
up : the length of the bill, of one I meafured, was ten inchqs and an 
half; 
