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rosei collis), whose entire head and neck are of an exquisite rosy pink colour, contrasting
finely with its otherwise green plumage; and on the very summit, feeding on the ground
among the strawberries that have been planted there, I obtained a dull-coloured thrush, with
the form and habits of a starling (Turdus fumidus). Insects were almost entirely absent, ow-
ing no doubt to the extreme dampness, and I did not get a single butterfly the whole trip; yet
I feel sure that, during the dry season, a week's residence on this mountain would well repay
the collector in every department of natural history.
After my return to Toego, I endeavoured to find another locality to collect in, and re-
moved to a coffee-plantation some miles to the north, and tried in succession higher and
lower stations on the mountain; but I never succeeded in obtaining insects in any abundance,
and birds were far less plentiful than on the Megamendong Mountain. The weather now be-
came more rainy than ever, and as the wet season seemed to have set in in earnest, I returned
to Batavia, packed up and sent off my collections, and left by steamer on November 1st for
Banca and Sumatra.
