T h r u s h *
G r o s b e a k .
T a n a g r e .
P i g e o n ;
R e p t i l e s .
Amboina; Latham. vi\. 74. vii. 143. Seb. Muf. 62. fig. 4. Head,
upper part of the body, primaries and tail, reddiih brown ; under
fide of the tail golden yellow; breaft and belly light yellow :
rather bigger than a lark; lings finely; flirts-its tail quite on the
back in the feafon of love,
Molucca -, Latbam, iii. 141. PL Enl. 139. Forehead, front, and
lides of the neck, black; hind part o f the head, back, and primaries
brown ; breaft and belly tranfverfely ftriped with black and
white; tail and its coverts black.
Amboina; Latham, iii. 244. Seb. Mus. i. tab. 38. fig. 6. Crown
black; back variegated with black and blue ; cheeks, throat, and
breaft blue; coverts o f the wings blue, marked with a purple
fpot; belly white; tail brown.
Green Purtle-, Latbam, iv. 653. PL Enl. 653. Forehead and
throat cinereous ; . the predominant color of the reft o f the bird
a green gold, glolfed with copper; on the front of the neck a
beautiful violet purple; length only feven inches and three
quarters.
T h i s m a k e s t h e f u m o f t h e b i r d s I c a n c o i l e d ! in t h e i f l a n d s ;
t h e l i f t is fm a l l , b u t t h e i r b e a u t y w i l l c o m p e n f a t e .
W e know very little o f their reptiles. The Boa is found in
Pernate, and other o f the ifles, o f a vail fize. I fufpedt alib
that the Cobra de capello, or Naja, inhabits Amboina. Rum-
pbius, ii. 131, mentions the Munalatu, a broad-headed ferpent, a
moft dangerous kind; the bite of which excites great heat, and
dreadful anxiety ; numbers of people die of the confequences ;
hut it i,s curable with the root of the Soulamoe, or Rex Amaroris,'
defcribed
defcribed in the fame volume, p. 129. tab. 40. Rumpbius alfo
fpeaks o f the Lacerta chalcidica -os a very dangerous fpecies o f
lizard. This poflibly is the Anguis quadrupedes o f authors, and
the Seps of M. La Cepede, i. 433. tab. 31, which is found in Java
and Amboina. .
As to fifhes and fhells they are extremely numerous; the firft Fishes.
very lingular in their forms ; the laft o f great beauty.
T h e large ifland o f Gilolo or Halamahera is not clafled among G il o l o .
the Moluccas, but lies nearly contiguous to them, and extends
north and fouth from Lat. 3° 10' north, to Lat. o° 50' fouth. The
equator pafles over the lower part. The weftern fide is ftraight,
and runs parallel with thofe iflands, and at the fouthern end
finiihes oppofite to Batcbian, but at the northern extends very
far beyond Pernate. On the eaft fide is a branch that points
due eaft, and from the bafe of that another, due north, leaving
between it and the weftern extent o f the ifland, a bay extremely
narrow, but o f a vaft length, penetrating above half o f the
length o f the whole. Dampier* reckons this among the low
iflands of the Indian feas ; yet in the interior parts it rifes into
very lofty horns or peaks.
I t is faid to have been once governed by one fovereign, a Scberif
from Mecca. We have mentioned that the Sultans o f Pernate
and Pidor, now are mailers of a confiderable part o f Gilolo ; the
chief towns are Maba, Weda, and Patanay. The laft is at the
extremity o f the eaftern branch ; it Hands on what is called
Patany Hook, a point in Lat. 0° 20' north, three miles in circum- P a t a n y H o o k .
* Voy. i. 425.
V ol. IV. C c ference,