BIRD-LIFE IN BURU. 
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deliffht to gather 
perching on the lower boughs, 
occasionally dart downwards, like 
falling arrows, into the calm, shadowy 
stream. Where the canals widen towards the 
sea-shore, long lines of gulls, and sandpipers, 
and plovers, and curlews assemble. Further 
inland, in the leafy woodland depths, flocks of 
red lories and other parrakeets, with blue heads, 
red and green breasts, and the under feathers 
of the wings of a bright vermilion and brighter 
yellow, partake of a morning banquet. Its 
commencement is easily known by the loud, 
incessant screeching and chattering that 
rise on every side ; and the traveller, if 
he silently steal through the luxuriant 
shrubbery, will see the great trees filled witli scores of brilliantly- 
plumed birds, flying to and fro, or climbing out to the ends of 
