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and when one knows their haunts they are not difficult to 
find. Their habit is to climb about the trunks of trees and 
along the lianas. They are often caught alive by the Papuans 
in the hollow trees where they make their nest. Nasiterna 
geelvinkiana seems to me very distinct, on account of its spiny 
tail.. The species which inhabits Mount Arfak also seems 
to be separable. I did not get Cyclopsitta gulielmi-tertit; but 
several skins of it are in Bruijn’s collection. Among the 
Charmosyne I found C. arfaki common enough. Though it 
seems strange, it is nevertheless true, that the green Eclecti 
are males of the red ones. I learnt this at Aru from my 
hunters ; and the young have the same difference. Is Micro- 
glossum alecto different from M. aterrimum? 
“* At Kordo I found a most beautiful Centropus. Of Cuculus 
leucolophus I got one specimen, and there is another in 
Bruijn’s collection. It is one of the rarest birds of the 
north-west peninsula of New Guinea. Chrysococcyx meyert, 
‘Salvad., seems to be found at Salwatti and at Kordo. If, 
however, the specimens from that place do not belong to 
another species, they are slightly different. 
“‘] paid special attention to the Pigeons, because they are 
rarely preserved by the Ternate hunters, being too difficult to 
skin, and too good to eat. Besides Péttlonopi bellus, miquelit, 
speciosus, musschenbroeckii, ornatus, pectoralis, humeralis, &c., 
I found P. aurantiifrons and another, which I had found at 
Aru. One, however, is unknown to me, viz. P. jobiensis, of 
which there is one bad skin in Bruijn’s collection. Carpe- 
phaga chalconota seems a good species. It is abundant at 
Atam ; but I did not preserve many specimens, as it was the 
principal resource of my table. 
-‘©Of Gymnophaps albertisi I only got two specimens. It is 
a very rare species, though Sig. Bruijn’s hunters got it, and 
also those of the missionaries at Andai and Dorey. Henico- 
phaps albifrons is a scattered species, and in some localities 
not very rare, as also Hutrygon terrestris, which is more 
common at Salwatti than elsewhere. I really think that 
there is more than one species of Chalcophaps. C. stefani is 
the commonest; another kind I found at Miosnom and at 















