( 15" ) 



Messrs. Jjarasin informed Mr. Duuias that 42 F. was registered at night ou the top 

 of Ivampo Katang. Nobody has as yet passed a uight ou the summit of Huah 

 Kraiing." 



"The entire country surrounding Bontliain Peak is old cultivated land— rice- 

 fields next the shore, coffee, tobacco, rice, maize, scrubby secondary jungle, fields of 

 coarse grasses, etc., inland — and it is quite denuded of primitive forest up lo an 

 elevation of some oOOt) feet, or even move, ou the eastern aspect of the mountain. 

 Hence the mammalian fauna below that elevation is very poor, even for Ct-lelies. 

 Wild pig, deer, and a rat which is, I think, M. iwglectua Jent., abound, and in the 

 villages a shrew ; and Cu-sciis celebensis is fairly common in the coflfee-plantations. 

 I also obtained a single individual of the Celebes Tarsier. But not a singh' monkey 

 or squirrel was seen or heard by any of us, the peculiar jungle-rats of the island were 

 not to be found, there was no Anoa and no Babirusa, and even bats were seldom 

 seen. Even in the old forest above Tasoso only one species of squirrel was observed, 

 and of that few were met with. Some black monkeys were seen once — probably 

 Macacus immras — and the quill of a jiorcupine was found beside one of tlie traps 

 set at 6500 feet, from which it had escaped. A jungle-rat with bi-coloured tail was 

 obtained, and the Anoa was said by the natives to be plentiful, but the liahirusa 

 neither they nor the Buginese in the lower country had heard of as inhabiting this 

 part of Celebes. The Cusciis was not met with by my party on the mountain, 

 although both C. ursinus and C. celebensis seem to exist in the lower country, nor 

 did they encounter any Viverra or Paradoxurus, but the natives say that V. lamja- 

 lunfja is common in the coffee-plantations." 



1. Merula celebensis Biittik. 



S. Upperside dark olive (Kidgw., Xoinend. Colours III. 9), wings and tail more 

 blackish. Under wing-coverts, chin, throat, and upper breast pale olive ; palest on 

 chin, which is pale hair-brown (Ridgw., Lc. III. 12), darkening towards the breast. 

 Whole abdomen pale cinnamon-rufous, paler in the middle and whitish on the vent, 

 dark olive-brown with whitish tips and lines along the shafts. Bill and feet yellowish 

 (in skin). Wing 125 — 129 mm. The female is browner on the breast. 



Bonthain Peak, from aliout 601)0 to 7000 feet upwards to the highest regions. 



2. Pratiucola caprata (!..). 



<? ? . Iiiilrulanian. \ nest with three eggs found at Indruhmiaii, Octolier :5rd, 

 1895. They agree willi Indian specimens, and measure 17 to 18 by 11 to 14''1 nun. 



:!. Phylloscopus borealis (Bias.). 

 Bonthain Peak, 55tH) feet. 



4. Phyllergates riedeli Miy. it Wigl. 

 Three males and a female horn Indrulamau. Hofrath Meyer has comiiared one 

 of the males with the type and declared them to be the same. The shade of colour 

 on the crown varies. The female has the head uniform with the back. 



5. Cisticola exilis (\ig. >.t Ilorsf). 



Inilruhinian. cJ. " Iris yellow-brown ; hill sepia; mandihh' [iale horn-lirown ; 

 legs Hesh-colour." 



