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right bank of the riv^er where the road crosses leading to Patalung, 

 remaining there until August 8 and then moving to Lay Song Hong, a 

 large lake or swamp near the head of the river, where he stayed until 

 about the middle of January 1897. Then he dropped down the river 

 to Kantany and remained there January 16 to 18, then went east to 

 Chong, on the divide between Trang and Patalung, and on February 

 22 camped at the base of Kao Nom Plu, a mountain 3,000 feet liigh, 

 where he remained two weeks. 



On IMarcli 12 he reached the base of Kao Song and on the same day 

 was prostrated by remittent fevers for nine days. Then he returned 

 to Tyching and two daj^s later dropped down the river to Gdntong 

 and later went to Bhagalterum, a village near the mouth of the Trang 

 River and north of the Plian River, which empties into the Trang 

 near its mouth, and remained there March 20 to 23, and then went 

 to Plian, a town on the south bank of the Plian River, where he 

 remained in the vicinity from April 2 to 10. He then went to a 

 hospital at Penang. The results of this expedition were 1,027 bird 

 sldns, besides large collections in other fields. 



Dr. Abbott returned to Trang in December 1898. He left Plian 

 on December 26 and, going inland, reached Kok Sai (at the foot of 

 Kao Nok Ram at the head of the Plian River) on the 27th and 

 remained in camp there, on the edge of heavy forest, until January 

 8, 1899. After maldng some visits to the slopes of the mountain, 

 he moved camp up the slopes of Kao Nok Ram to 1,700 feet, with 

 heavy forests in all directions, remaining there until the 18th. The 

 mountain was ascended to the summit, 3,200 feet; some peaks not 

 visited were 500 to 600 feet higher. He then returned to Kok Sai, 

 leaving there on February 1 to visit Kao Soi Dao, a mountain south 

 of Kao Nok Ram and not quite so high. He camped on the slopes 

 at 1,100 feet and remained there until February 21. Returning to 

 Kok Sai on the 22d, he stayed until the 25th and then went to Naklua, 

 a village on the Trang River near its mouth, about 5 miles east of 

 Prahmon, where he remained from March 2 to 5, 1899. Then he 

 left for Singapore. 



On this trip he brought back 300 bird skins in addition to his usual 

 miscellaneous collections. 



While outfitting at Singapore for a cruise in a schooner he was 

 having built. Dr. Abbott collected 80 bird sldns at Selitar, 9 miles 

 from Singapore, in May 1899. At that time there were still a little 

 jungle and forest on Singapore Island. He found the parrot Psittacula 

 longicauda quite common, but shot only one. Wild pigs and small 

 deer were rather common; rusa and an occasional tiger still occurred. 



He then cruised in his schooner through the Rhio Archipelago and 

 eastward to the Tambelan and Anamba Islands from July to Septem- 



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