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S070 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1862. On some new birds from the northern Moluccas. Ibis 4 (16): 348-351. Text Image PDF

same genera taking their place in Gilolo itself; and they are further interesting as marking the northern limit to which these two genera are yet known to extend. The other birds found at Morty are Gilolo species, with the exception of a Crow, which appears to agree best with the Corvus orru of New Guinea, and Butalis hypogrammica, n. s., which agrees with specimens from Ceram, but has not yet been found in Gilolo. The island possesses an active volcano, but otherwise consists only of raised

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S715.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

therefore believe it to have been separated from Gilolo at a somewhat remote epoch; while we learn from its natural history that an arm of the sea twenty-five miles wide serves to limit the range even of birds of considerable powers of flight. [page 23

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menced any fresh expeditions. My succeeding journeys to Gilolo and Batchian have already been narrated, and it now only remains for me to give an account of my residence in Waigiou, the last Papuan territory I visited in search of Birds of Paradise. [page 331

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THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO. CHAPTER XXI. THE MOLUCCAS TERNATE. ON the morning of the 8th of January, 1858, I arrived at Ternate, the fourth of a row of fine conical volcanic islands which skirt the west coast of the large and almost unknown island of Gilolo. The largest and most perfectly conical mountain is Tidore, which is over four thousand feet high Ternate being very nearly the same height, but with a more rounded and irregular summit. The town of Ternate is concealed from view till we enter

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S045r Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1859. Extracts from a letter of Mr. A. R. Wallace to Mr. S. Stevens. Zoologist 17 (200-201, March): 6409-6413. Text Image

is the only way of visiting many most interesting places,—the Eastern coast of the four peninsulars of Gilolo, the Island of Guebe, half-way between Gilolo and Waigiou, a most interesting spot, as Gilolo and Waigiou possess quite distinct Faunas

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S715.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

islands of the Pacific. It is otherwise difficult to understand how so many fertile districts should possess no true indigenes. Gilolo, or Halmaheira as it is called by the Malays and Dutch, seems to have been recently modified by upheaval and subsidence. In 1673, a mountain is said to have been upheaved at Gamokonora on the northern peninsula. All the parts that I have seen have either been volcanic or coralline, and along the coast there are fringing coral reefs very dangerous to navigation

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S720 Book: Wallace, A. R. ed. 1879. Australasia. Stanford’s compendium of geography and travel: based on Hellwald’s ‘Die Erde und ihre Völker’. Edited and extended by Alfred R. Wallace, F.R.G.S., Author of the ‘Malay Archipelago,’ ‘Geographical distribution of animals,’ etc. With Ethnological appendix by A.H. Keane, M.A.I. London: Edward Stanford (Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel). Text Image PDF

CHAPTER XX. THE MOLUCCAS. 1. Position, Size, etc. THE term Moluccas, or Maluco Islands, was originally applied to the five small islands situated on the west side of Gilolo, in which alone the precious clove was produced. Now, it is extended so as to include almost all the islands which lie directly between Celebes and New Guinea. The three large islands which are considered to form the most important portion of the Moluccan group are Gilolo, Ceram, and Bouru; but between and around these are

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S070 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1862. On some new birds from the northern Moluccas. Ibis 4 (16): 348-351. Text Image PDF

Total length 8 inches; wing 4 inches; bill from gape inch. Hab. Batchian, Gilolo, and Morty. Remark. This species is smaller than C. flavicaudus, Bp., from which it differs in the uniform dusky tail. My specimens from Gilolo differ among themselves in the size of the bill, showing that this important organ is, like every other part, liable to variation. This species was included in Mr. G. R. Gray's list of Moluccan birds as C. flavicaudus. TROPIDORHYNCHUS FUSCICAPILLUS. Above dark glossy olive

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S147 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1869. Notes on eastern butterflies (continued). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1869 (part IV): 277-288. Text Image PDF

all. D. Pandarus, on the contrary, is strikingly constant in Amboyna and Ceram, where alone it is found, each of the allied forms seems to be equally constant in its own locality, there are no intermediate connecting links, and the males vary quite as much as the females. I have, therefore, no hesitation in naming this as a very distinct species. 9. DIADEMA OCTOCULA. Diadema octocula, Butler, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1869 (Jan.), pl. ix. f. 1, ♂. Hab.—Tologa Island (?, perhaps Gilolo). (Coll

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S715.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

Batchian. *28. Batchian. Inhabitants like the preceding. Mahometans, and of a similar Malay type. 29. Gani. A village on the south peninsula of Gilolo. Inhabitants, Moluccan-Malays, and Mahometans. *30. Sahoe; 31. Galela. Villages of Northern Gilolo. The inhabitants are called Alfuros. They are indigenes of Polynesian type, with brown skins, but Papuan hair and features Pagans. 32. Liang. A village on the north coast of Amboyna. Several other villages near speak the same language. They are

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S720 Book: Wallace, A. R. ed. 1879. Australasia. Stanford’s compendium of geography and travel: based on Hellwald’s ‘Die Erde und ihre Völker’. Edited and extended by Alfred R. Wallace, F.R.G.S., Author of the ‘Malay Archipelago,’ ‘Geographical distribution of animals,’ etc. With Ethnological appendix by A.H. Keane, M.A.I. London: Edward Stanford (Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel). Text Image PDF

4. Ternate and the Gilolo Group. The island of Gilolo, called by the natives Halmaheira, has a fantastic shape, very much resembling that of Celebes, both islands consisting of four peninsulas radiating from a comparatively small central mass, and divided by three deep gulfs on the eastern side. It is mountainous and rugged; many of the mountains resemble volcanic cones, and it has at least one active volcano. Around it are grouped a number of smaller islands which have all the appearance of

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S058 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1860. Letter [dated 22 October 1859, Amboyna]. Ibis 2 (6): 197-199. Text Image PDF

see in my collections, but not from Celebes. Todiramphus funebris is also unknown in Celebes, but common in Gilolo, so that the Dutch naturalists seem to have placed all their species of unknown locality in Celebes, acting as the French have done in giving to the little island of Vanikoro hundreds of insects which were never found there. Among the other interesting species from Gilolo are a Ptilonopus and a Platycercus—both, I think, new; the beautiful Ianthœnas halmaheira, Bp., and several

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S135 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1868. A catalogue of the Cetoniidae of the Malayan Archipelago, with descriptions of the new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (ser. 3) 4 (part V): 519-601, pls. XI-XIV. Text Image PDF

Distribution of Species. INDIAN REGION. AUSTRALIAN REGION. Indo-Malay Islands. Celebes. Moluccan Group. Papuan Islands. Timor Group. Malacca and Singapore. Sumatra. Java. Borneo. Philippines. Celebes. Sulla Isl. Batchian. Kaioa Isl. Ternate. Gilolo. Morty Isl. Bouru. Ceram and Amboyna. Goram and Matabello. K Isl. Aru Islands. Mysol. Waigiou. N. Guinea Salwatty. Lombock. Flores. Timor. N. Hebrides Solomon Is. Schizorhininæ. SCHIZORHINA. 1. flammula 1 2. nigerrima 1 1 3. emilia 1 4. Whitei 1 1 5

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S114 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1865. On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago. Ibis (n.s.) 1 (4): 365-400, pl.9. Text Image PDF

Bill bluish horn, red at base above; feet dull purple; iris deep olive-brown. Total length 18 in. Hab. Bouru, Batchian, Gilolo, Waigiou (Wall.). In my list of the birds of Bouru, I have regarded this as a variety of C. perspicillata; but as its differences are exactly analogous to those of many of the Psittaci that have been universally treated as species, I thought it better to give this also a distinctive name. (Ptilocolpa, Bp.) 55. CARPOPHAGA CAROLA, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 34. Hab. Philippine

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S715.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

allied to that of the natives of Gilolo, while it contains much that points to a Malayan origin. To most of these people the Malay language is quite unintelligible, although such as are engaged in trade are obliged to acquire it. Orang Sirani, or Nazarenes, is the name given by the Malays to the Christian descendants of the Portuguese, who resemble those of Amboyna, and, like them, speak only Malay. There are also a number of Chinese merchants, many of them natives of the place, a few Arabs

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S715.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

Megapodius, or mound-maker. A few of the pretty racquet-tailed kingfishers were also obtained, but in very poor plumage. They proved, however, to be of a different species from those found in the other islands, and come nearest to the bird originally described by Linnæus under the name of Alcedo dea, and which came from Ternate. This would indicate that the small chain of islands parallel to Gilolo have a few peculiar species in common, a fact which certainly occurs in insects. The people of

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S715.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

We started on the 25th of March in the schooner Hester Helena, belonging to my friend Mr. Duivenboden, and bound on a trading voyage along the north coast of New Guinea Having calms and light airs, we were three days reaching Gan , near the south end of Gilolo, where we stayed to fill up our water-casks and buy a few provisions. We obtained fowls, eggs, sago, plantains, sweet potatoes, yellow pumpkins, chilies, fish, and dried deer's meat; and on the afternoon of the 29th proceeded on our

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S715.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

clouds, formed the daily programme. With the exception that it was never cold, it was just such weather as a very bad English November or February. The people of Waigiou are not truly indigenes of the island, which possesses no Alfuros, or aboriginal inhabitants. They appear to be a mixed race, partly from Gilolo, partly from New Guinea. Malays and Alfuros from the former island have probably settled here, and many of them have taken Papuan wives from Salwatty or Dorey, while the influx of

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S715.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

three southern peninsulas of Gilolo, possess no true indigenous population; but the northern peninsula is inhabited by a native race, the so-called Alfuros of Sahoe and Galela. These people are quite distinct from the Malays, and almost equally so from the Papuans. They are tall and well-made, with Papuan features, and curly hair; they are bearded and hairy-limbed, but quite as light in colour as the Malays. They are an industrious and enterprising race, cultivating rice and vegetables, and

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S141 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1868. On the raptorial birds of the Malay Archipelago. Ibis (n.s.) 4 (13): 1-27, pl. I. Text Image PDF

on the inner web. It appears to me to be much more nearly allied to A. iogaster than to A. griseogularis, and to be, in fact, the representative of that species in Gilolo. 8. ACCIPITER GRISEOGULARIS (G. R. Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 343); Nisus cruentus, Schleg., Mus. P.-B. Astures, p. 41, Valkv. Nederl. Ind. pl. xiv.—xvi. Hab. Batchian, Gilolo, Ternate, Morty Is. (Wall.). Bill black, lead-colour at base; cere yellowish; feet olive or ochre-yellow. I possess eight specimens, of both sexes, and in

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S154 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1869. Notes on the localities given in Longicornia Malayana, with an estimate of the comparative value of the collections made at each of them. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (ser. 3) 3 (part VII): 691-696. Text Image PDF

chiefly of coralline limestone, covered with a grand forest vegetation. I spent five days there in January 1857, and tried to reach them again in 1860, but failed. I believe they would well repay a thorough exploration by an entomologist.Morty. Mr. Allen spent about two months on this island, and obtained a rather better collection than on Gilolo, owing to there being some natives engaged in clearing forest.Gilolo. I never myself found a good collecting ground on Gilolo, and did not spend more

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S058 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1860. Letter [dated 22 October 1859, Amboyna]. Ibis 2 (6): 197-199. Text Image PDF

Wallace Online [page] 197 Mr. Wallace's last communications are dated Amboyna, Oct. 22, 1859, whence he has sent us the valuable contributions to our pages which we have the pleasure of inserting in our present Number. He further says,— I have just packed up a large collection of Gilolo and Ternate birds, as well as those from Menado. The former are a much gayer lot, comprising a fine series of Pitta maxima, a new Megapodius, I think, handsomely banded on the back, and a Semioptera, which

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S127 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1867. On the Pieridae of the Indian and Australian regions. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (ser. 3) 4 (part III): 301-416, pls. 1-4. Text Image PDF

PALæARCTIC REGION. INDIAN REGION. AUSTRALIAN REGION. Asia. Indo-Malay Islands. Philippines. Celebes. Moluccan Group. Papuan Islands. Timor Group. Australia and Pacific Is. Indian Asia. Chinese Asia. Malacca and Singapore. Sumatra. Java. Borneo. Celebes. Sulla Isl. Batchian. Kaioa Isl. Gilolo and Ternate. Morty Isl. Bouru. Ceram and Amboina. Goram and Matabello. K Isl. Aru Islands. Mysol. Waigiou. N. Guinea and Salwatty. Lombock. Flores. Timor. Australia and Pacific Is. PONTIA. 1. nina .. 1

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S135 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1868. A catalogue of the Cetoniidae of the Malayan Archipelago, with descriptions of the new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (ser. 3) 4 (part V): 519-601, pls. XI-XIV. Text Image PDF

Tables shewing the distributon of the Malayan Cetoniidæ Distribution of Species. INDIAN REGION. AUSTRALIAN REGION. Indo-Malay Islands. Celebs. Moluccan Group. Papuan Islands. Timor Group. Malacca and Singapore. Sumatra. Java. Broneo. Philippines. Celebes. Sulla Isl. Batchian. Kaioa Isl. Ternate. Gilolo. Morty Isl. Bouru. Ceram and Amboyna. Goram and Matabello. K Isl. Aru Islands. Mysol. Waigiou. N. Guinea Salwatty. Lombock. Flores. Timor. N. Hebrides Solomon Is. CETONIIDæ Goliathinæ

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S135 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1868. A catalogue of the Cetoniidae of the Malayan Archipelago, with descriptions of the new species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (ser. 3) 4 (part V): 519-601, pls. XI-XIV. Text Image PDF

Distribution of Species. INDIAN REGION. AUSTRALIAN REGION. Indo-Malay Islands. Celebes. Moluccan Group. Papuan Islands. Timor Group. Malacca and Singapore. Sumatra. Java. Borneo. Philippines. Celebes. Sulla Isl. Batchian. Kaioa Isl. Ternate. Gilolo. Morty Isl. Bouru. Ceram and Amboyna. Goram and Matabello. K Isl. Aru Islands. Mysol. Waigiou. N. Guinea Salwatty. Lombock. Flores. Timor. N. Hebrides Solomon Is. CETONIA. 1. spectabilis 1 2. bifenestata 1 3. ciocolatina 1 4. procera 1 5. inanis 1 6

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S715.1 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

II. THE TIMOR GROUP: comprising the islands of Timor, Flores, Sumbawa, and Lombock, with several smaller ones. III. CELEBES: comprising also the Sula Islands and Bouton. IV. THE MOLUCCAN GROUP: comprising Bouru, Ceram, Batchian, Gilolo, and Morty; with the smaller islands of Ternate, Tidore, Makian, Kai a, Amboyna, Banda, Goram, and Matabello. V. THE PAPUAN GROUP: comprising the great island of New Guinea, with the Aru Islands, Mysol, Salwatty, Waigiou, and several others. The K Islands are

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S715.1 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1869. The Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature. London: Macmillan and Co. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

SECOND VOLUME. THE MOLUCCAS. CHAP. PAGE XXI. TERNATE 1 XXII. GILOLO 14 XXIII. VOYAGE TO THE KAI A ISLANDS AND BATCHIAN 23 XXIV. BATCHIAN 36 XXV. CERAM, GORAM, AND THE MATABELLO ISLANDS 73 XXVI. BOURU 124 XXVII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MOLUCCAS 138 THE PAPUAN GROUP. XXVIII. MACASSAR TO THE ARU ISLANDS IN A NATIVE PRAU 157 XXIX. THE K ISLANDS 176 XXX. THE ARU ISLANDS RESIDENCE IN DOBBO 196 XXXI. THE ARU ISLANDS JOURNEY AND RESIDENCE IN THE INTERIOR 218 XXXII. THE ARU ISLANDS SECOND RESIDENCE

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S721 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co. Text Image PDF

over a considerable portion of it, or even be much exceeded in the centre. In the Molucca passage a single sounding on the Gilolo side gave 1,200 fathoms, and a large part of the Molucca MAP OF CELEBES AND THE SURROUNDING ISLANDS. The depth of sea is shown by three tints: the lightest indicating less than 100 fathoms, the medium tint less than 1,000 fathoms, and the dark tint more than 1,000 fathoms. The figures show depths in fathoms. and Banda Seas probably exceed 2,000 fathoms. The southern

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S070 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1862. On some new birds from the northern Moluccas. Ibis 4 (16): 348-351. Text Image PDF

rather larger, and has the tail-spatulæ more like T. galatea, G. R. G. It seems to be confined to the small island of Morty, only separated by a strait 30 miles wide from Gilolo, the habitat of T. isis. ACROCEPHALUS INSULARIS. Above olive-brown, more rufous on the rump and tail; beneath white, tinged with ash on the neck and breast, and with rufous on the flanks and under tail-coverts; an obscure pale stripe from the nostrils over the eyes and ear-coverts. Bill dusky; lower mandible and feet pale

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S114 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1865. On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago. Ibis (n.s.) 1 (4): 365-400, pl.9. Text Image PDF

Hab. Batchian, Kaioa Island, Ternate, Gilolo, Morty Island (Wall.). Iris dark; feet red; bill greenish. Sexes different. c. Breast-plumes bifid or decomposed. (Lamprotreron, Ptilopus, Bp.) 27. PTILONOPUS SUPERBUS, Temm.; Knip, Pig. i. t. 33; Bp. Consp. ii. p. 18. Hab. Amboyna, Ceram, Batchian, Gilolo, Waigiou, Mysol, Aru Islands, New Guinea (Wall.). Bill olive-green, tip yellowish; feet pink; claws pale; iris yellow. Length 9½ in. Sexes different.Columba cyanovirens, Less., is probably the

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S114 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1865. On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago. Ibis (n.s.) 1 (4): 365-400, pl.9. Text Image PDF

(Megaloprepia, Reich.) 76. CARPOPHAGA PUELLA, Less.; Knip, Pig. ii. t. 1; Bp. Consp. ii. p. 40. Hab. New Guinea, Waigiou, Mysol (Wall.). Bill yellow, red at base; iris orange-red; feet yellow green; claws dusky. Length 12 inches. Sexes alike. 77. CARPOPHAGA BERNSTEINI, Schleg. Ptilopus bernsteini, Schleg. Nederl. Tijdsch. 1863, p. 59. Carpophaga formosa, G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 360. P. ochrogaster, Bernst. Ned. Tijdsch. 1865, p. 324. Hab. Gilolo (Wall.), Batchian (Bernstein

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S127 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1867. On the Pieridae of the Indian and Australian regions. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (ser. 3) 4 (part III): 301-416, pls. 1-4. Text Image PDF

absence of thickened nervures beneath the anterior wings. It is not impossible that T. herodias from Gilolo may be the female of this, as many of the species of these two islands are identical. 41. Thyca herodias, Vollenhoven. Pieris herodias, Voll. Mon. Pier. p. 14, pl. 3, f. 4, . Hab. Gilolo (Leyden Mus.). This curious form seems quite distinct from T. pæcilea, although very closely allied to it. 42. Thyca timorensis, Boisduval. Pieris timorensis, Bd. Sp. G n. p. 459, ; Voll. Mon. Pier. p

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S127 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1867. On the Pieridae of the Indian and Australian regions. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (ser. 3) 4 (part III): 301-416, pls. 1-4. Text Image PDF

Pieris albina, Bd. Sp. G n. p. 480, . Pieris galene, Feld. Voy. Novara, p. 165, var. Pieris darada, Feld. ib. p. 166, var. Hab. (Males.) N. India, S. India, Penang, Java (Horsf., B. M.), Celebes, Bouru, Ceram, Gilolo, Batchian (Coll. Wall.), Obi?, Morty?, Philippines (Wall.). (Females, white). N. India, Bengal, Ceylon, Philippines (W. W.Saund.), Bouru (Wall.), Obi, Morty (Voll.), Timor, Lombock, Amboina (Wall.). (Females, yellow.) Batchian, Aru Islands, Makian, (Wall.), Java (Horsf.). The

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to cut our rattan cable and leave it behind us. We had now only one anchor left. Starting early, on the 4th of October, the same S.S.W. wind continued, and we began to fear that we should hardly clear the southern point of Gilolo. The night of the 5th was squally, with thunder, but after midnight it got tolerably fair, and we were going along with a light wind and looking out for the coast of Gilolo, which we thought we must be nearing, when we heard a dull roaring sound, like a heavy surf

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wind to move us, yet these would soon pass away, and leave the water very smooth, and just before we encountered them we met a great swell, but it did not break. Some time afterwards, I learnt that an earthquake had been felt on the coast of Gilolo the very day we had encountered these curious waves. When daylight came, we saw the land of Gilolo a few miles off, but the point was unfortunately a little to windward of us. We tried to brace up all we could to round it, but as we approached the shore

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On the 22d we had light head-winds. A little before noon we passed, with the assistance of our oars, the Pa ien ia Straits, the narrowest part of the channel between Batchian and Gilolo. These were well named by the early Portuguese navigators, as the currents are very strong, and there are so many eddies, that even with a fair wind vessels are often quite unable to pass through them. In the afternoon a strong north wind (dead ahead) obliged us to anchor twice. At night it was calm, and we

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S716 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1870. Contributions to the theory of natural selection. A series of essays. London & New York: Macmillan & Co. Text Image PDF

imitated by the Mimeta. In the island of Morty (north of Gilolo) there exists the Tropidorhynchus fuscicapillus, of a dark sooty brown colour, especially on the head, while the under parts are rather lighter, and the characteristic ruff of the nape is wanting. Now it is curious that in the adjacent island of Gilolo should be found the Mimeta phæochromus, the upper surface of which is of exactly the same dark sooty tint as the Tropidorhynchus, and is the only known species that is of such a

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S718.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1876. The geographical distribution of animals; with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface. London: Macmillan & Co. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

Islands; Xanthomelus (1 sp.), New Guinea; Cicinnurus (1 sp.), Papuan Islands; Paradigalla (1 sp.), New Guinea; Semioptera (1 sp.), Gilolo and Batchian. Sub-family II. Epimachinæ. Epimachus (1 sp.), New Guinea; Drepanornis (1 sp.), New Guinea; Seleucides (1 sp.), New Guinea (Plate X., Vol. I., p. 414); Ptilorhis (4 sp.), New Guinea and North Australia. Sub-family III. Tectonarchinæ (Bower-birds). Sericulus (1 sp.), Eastern Australia; Ptilonorhynchus (1 sp.), Eastern Australia; Chlamydodera (4

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S720 Book: Wallace, A. R. ed. 1879. Australasia. Stanford’s compendium of geography and travel: based on Hellwald’s ‘Die Erde und ihre Völker’. Edited and extended by Alfred R. Wallace, F.R.G.S., Author of the ‘Malay Archipelago,’ ‘Geographical distribution of animals,’ etc. With Ethnological appendix by A.H. Keane, M.A.I. London: Edward Stanford (Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel). Text Image PDF

Gilolo, where Mount Karakan is an active volcano. In the vicinity of the volcanic districts there are usually abundant signs of upheaval, in the form of raised coral reefs or masses of coral limestone far inland. At the extreme north, the island of Morty is coralline and volcanic, but has no volcano. The centre and most of the southern peninsula of Gilolo is composed largely of coral rock. At Amboyna we find a base of crystalline rocks, with abundance of coralline limestone, forming hills off

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S063 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1861. Letters [dated 10 December 1860, Ternate, and 6 February 1861, Delli, Timor]. Ibis 3 (11): 310-311. Text Image PDF

consent of naturalists in congress assembled, would be a work worthy of the century. Let ornithologists be the first in the field, and the other -ologists will soon follow. The Cockatoos puzzle me greatly. You make my Lombock sp. C. æquatorialis, which Temminck says is peculiar to N. Gilolo and N. Celebes. Do you make it a synonym of C. sulphurea, which you do not mention?3 You will see small specimens of a Cockatoo from Mysol, which I thought were C. æquatorialis. I have just received a very

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S070 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1862. On some new birds from the northern Moluccas. Ibis 4 (16): 348-351. Text Image PDF

ally raised in the ocean by volcanic agency. While this was going on, it would be peopled by stragglers from the surrounding countries, and an overwhelming proportion of Gilolo species would naturally result from the proximity of that island. The species of Tanysiptera and Tropidorhynchus, which, from being generally very local, we may conclude to be peculiarly subject to modification, are those which have undergone the greatest amount of change, and already present us with well-marked

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S074 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1863. Notes on the genus Iphias, with descriptions of two new species from the Moluccas. Journal of Entomology 2 (7): 1-5, pl. I. Text Image PDF

wings, when I knew it must be an Iphias. I afterwards obtained a few males; but it was never abundant. Iphias sulphurea. Male. I. supra pallide fulvo-sulphurea; alis anticis apice late nigro, maculaque magna apicali fulvo-rubra; margine costali grisea. Subtus fulva fusco irrorata; alis anticis apice obscuriore, basi flava immaculata. Female. Alis anticis macula rubra apicali parva; posticis margine posteriore intus dentato maculisque submarginalibus nigris. Exp. al. 4.5. Hab. Batchian, Gilolo (Ins

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S089 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1864. Remarks on the habits, distribution, and affinities of the genus Pitta. Ibis 6 (21): 100-114. Text Image PDF

there. This segregation has already taken place to a remarkable extent in the Archipelago. Generally speaking, each island or little group of islands has its peculiar species distinct from those of the islands that surround it. Some of these cases of localized species are among the most extraordinary known. The little island of Banda, hardly more than a mile across, has a species peculiar to it. Ternate, a mere volcanic satellite of Gilolo, and not more than ten miles from it, has a Pitta all to

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S131 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1867. The Polynesians and their migrations. Quarterly Journal of Science 4 (14): 161-166. Text Image PDF

the eastern parts of the Malayan Archipelago, such as the Timorese, the mountaineers of Ceram and Gilolo, and of the small islands near New Guinea; and this mistake has been rendered excusable by the number of half-breeds between the two races to be found everywhere. Many of these people are, perhaps, allied to the Polynesians,1 but they are certainly not Malays, who are essentially a Mongol race, with many of the Mongol characteristics very strongly marked. The Papuans of New Guinea form the

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S718.1 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1876. The geographical distribution of animals; with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface. London: Macmillan & Co. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

most remarkable and longest-horned Anthotribidæ. Even in birds the same law may be seen at work, in the Tanysiptera nais of Ceram, which has a larger tail than any other in the genus; in Centropus goliath of Gilolo, being the largest and longest-tailed species; in Hydrornis maximus of Gilolo, the largest and perhaps the most elegantly and conspicuously coloured of all the Pittidæ; in Platycercus amboinensis, being pre-eminent in its ample blue tail; in the two Moluccan lories and Eos rubra, being

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S720 Book: Wallace, A. R. ed. 1879. Australasia. Stanford’s compendium of geography and travel: based on Hellwald’s ‘Die Erde und ihre Völker’. Edited and extended by Alfred R. Wallace, F.R.G.S., Author of the ‘Malay Archipelago,’ ‘Geographical distribution of animals,’ etc. With Ethnological appendix by A.H. Keane, M.A.I. London: Edward Stanford (Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel). Text Image PDF

below equator; natives form a connecting link between the Mikronesians and true Mahoris; several well-marked dialects inclining more to the Mahori than to the Malay type, as shown by the presence of the Mahori article te, here used both definitely and indefinitely. Kingsmill Gilolo Natives of two types: sub-Pap an, and even pure Pap an in N. peninsula (Sahoe); elsewhere sub-Malay (Raffray and Dr. Hamy in Bul. de la Soc. de G o. xiii. p. 480-90); tribes and languages very numerous, but little known

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S058 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1860. Letter [dated 22 October 1859, Amboyna]. Ibis 2 (6): 197-199. Text Image PDF

almost identical, and in G. R. Gray's list, New Guinea specimens are put as T. dea. If so, then the larger white-tailed species found in Amboyna and Ceram is undescribed, and is perhaps the same as the white-tailed specimens from the Kaisa Islands, sent with my Batchian collections1 . The Carpophaga perspicillata of Amboyna differs also from those of Gilolo and Batchian in the much lighter colour of the head. Now, I believe in all these cases, where the difference is constant, we must call

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S114 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1865. On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago. Ibis (n.s.) 1 (4): 365-400, pl.9. Text Image PDF

(Iotreron, Bp.) 35. PTILONOPUS HYOGASTER, Reinwt.; Pl. Col. 252; Bp. Consp. ii. p. 25. Hab. Batchian, Gilolo (Wall.). Bill bluish white, tip yellow; feet lilac-purple. 36. PTILONOPUS MELANOCEPHALUS, Gm.; Knip, Pig. i. t. 30; Bp. Consp. ii. p. 24. Hab. Java, Lombock, Celebes, Sulla Island (Wall.). Bill yellow, greenish horny at the tip; feet pink red; orbits bare, green. Length 9 in. Sexes different. 37. PTILINOPUS PRASINORRHOUS, G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 185. Hab. Bouru, Goram

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S114 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1865. On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago. Ibis (n.s.) 1 (4): 365-400, pl.9. Text Image PDF

. CARPOPHAGA LUCTUOSA, Reinwt.; Pl. Col. 247. Hab. Menado, Macassar (Celebes); Sulla Island (Wall.). Bill and feet lead-blue, bill horny yellow at the tip; iris black. This species is distinguished from the following by the rich cream-colour of its plumage, the powdery-white outer webs of all the quills, and the outer tail-feathers nearly all white. 66. CARPOPHAGA MELANURA, G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 361. Hab. Bouru, Ceram, Amboyna, Batchian, Gilolo, Goram (Wall.). Bill greenish horn-colour

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S114 Periodical contribution: Wallace, A. R. 1865. On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago. Ibis (n.s.) 1 (4): 365-400, pl.9. Text Image PDF

Bill and feet black; orbits bare, red. 94. TURACŒNA MODESTA, Temm. Pl. Col. 552; Bp. Consp. ii. p. 59. Hab. Timor (Wall.). Bill and feet black; iris brick-red, inner ring yellow; orbits yellow. Length 16 in. 95. TURACŒNA CRASSIROSTRIS, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1856, p. 136. Hab. Guadalcanar (Solomon Islands). REINWARDTŒNA, Bp. 96. REINWARDTŒNA REINWARDTI, Temm. Pl. Col. 248; Bp. Consp. ii. p. 59. Hab. Batchian, Gilolo, Amboyna, Ceram, Waigiou, New Guinea (Wall.). Base of bill and orbits dull