The birds found were the same as at Dorey, but were still scarcer.

None of the natives anywhere near the coast shoot or prepare Birds of Paradise, which come from far in the interior over two or three ranges of mountains, passing by barter from village to village till they reach the sea.

There the natives of Dorey buy them, and on their return home sell them to the Bugis or Ternate traders.

It is therefore hopeless for a traveller to go to any particular place on the coast of New Guinea where rare Paradise birds may have been bought, in hopes of obtaining freshly killed specimens from the natives; and it also shows the scarcity of these birds in any one locality, since from the Amberbaki district, a celebrated place, where at least five or six species have been procured, not one of the rarer ones has been obtained this year.

The Prince of Tidore, who would certainly have got them if any were to be had, was obliged to put up with a few of the common yellow ones.