three specimens. I was thus able to bring away with me more than
a hundred of both sexes, including perhaps twenty very fine
males, though not more than five or six that were absolutely
perfect.

My daily walk now led me, first about half a mile along the sandy
beach, then through a sago swamp over a causeway of very shaky
poles to the village of the Tomore people. Beyond this was the
forest with patches of new clearing, shady paths, and a
considerable quantity of felled timber. I found this a very fair
collecting ground, especially for beetles. The fallen trunks in
the clearings abounded with golden Buprestidae and curious
Brenthidae, and longicorns, while in the forest I found abundance
of the smaller Curculionidae, many longicorns, and some fine
green Carabidae.

Butterflies were not abundant, but I obtained a few more of the
fine blue Papilio, and a number of beautiful little Lycaenidae,
as well as a single specimen of the very rare Papilio Wallacei,
of which I had taken the hitherto unique specimen in the Aru
Islands.

The most interesting birds I obtained here, were the beautiful
blue kingfisher, Todiramphus diops; the fine green and purple
doves, Ptilonopus superbus and P. iogaster, and several new birds
of small size. My shooters still brought me in specimens of the
Semioptera Wallacei, and I was greatly excited by the positive
statements of several of the native hunters that another species
of this bird existed, much handsomer and more remarkable. They
declared that the plumage was glossy black, with metallic green