. Ornithological miscellany . l. CITTURA CYAN OTIS, {re7-n? 9 HaiiKar-L imp. < o <oI—I O o 1-3O Ehh—< ;?;o. K VT: p-1 CD E-iOW a: >: ON THE GENUS CITTURA. 133 CiTTURA CYANOTIS. This species belongs to that four-armed island, Celebes, with itssuggestive form and triple gulf, and particularly to the northern part of it,Minahassa (which Mr. Wallace calls a sweet native name )*. He describesit as quite a garden, full of fine coffee-plantations and rice-fields, with capitalroads. In the Malay Archipelago, vol. i. p. 387, is a map of Minahassa,with Menado (the chief town) and the lake

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. Ornithological miscellany . l. CITTURA CYAN OTIS, {re7-n? 9 HaiiKar-L imp. < o <oI—I O o 1-3O Ehh—< ;?;o. K VT: p-1 CD E-iOW a: >: ON THE GENUS CITTURA. 133 CiTTURA CYANOTIS. This species belongs to that four-armed island, Celebes, with itssuggestive form and triple gulf, and particularly to the northern part of it,Minahassa (which Mr. Wallace calls a sweet native name )*. He describesit as quite a garden, full of fine coffee-plantations and rice-fields, with capitalroads. In the Malay Archipelago, vol. i. p. 387, is a map of Minahassa,with Menado (the chief town) and the lake Tondano, near which Cittitracyanotis occurs. Dr. Meyer sends me the following notes as descriptions of thesewoodcuts:— ^, The first is a view of Manadof, the chief town (if it can be called atown) of the Minahassa, on the bay of Manado and on a part of themountains of the country—the part through which one generally entersthe bovenlanden [ the highlands]. The view is taken from alittle to the north of Manado, and it looks to the south. The more markedhouses or streets are not to be distinguished, they bei

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