Note 2 — Domestic Live-stock—Ponies, Buffaloes, Etc.

Deer and Wild Boars are plentiful, and afford good sport to the huntsman. In Mórong district—in Negros Island—and in Rizal Province, on and in the vicinity of the estate which I purchased—I have had some good runs. Monkeys, too, abound in many of the forests. In all the islands there is enjoyment awaiting the sportsman. Pheasants, snipe, a dozen varieties of wild pigeons, woodcock, jungle-fowl (gallus bankiva), wild ducks, water-fowl, etc. are common, whilst there are also turtle-doves, calaos (buceros hydrocorax), hawks, cranes, herons, crows, parrots, cockatoos, kingfishers, parroquets, and many others peculiar to the Archipelago which I will leave to ornithologists to describe.2 One curious species of pigeon (calanas nicobarina) is called in Spanish Paloma de puñalada because of the crimson feathers on its breast, which look exactly as if they were blood-stained from a dagger-stab.3 In 1898 I saw some specimens of this pigeon in the Hamburg Zoological Gardens. There are several birds of gorgeous plumage, such as the oropendolo (Spanish name).