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ficance 



The great group of the 



Laurels, which so vary in flower and foh'age as to he separated 

 off into many genera by botanists, are all designated by the one 

 name Iluru, but they are differentiated by no fewer than sixty- 

 three different specific terms, in every instance indicating 

 some prominent distinguishing characteristic of flower, fruit or 

 timber ; and on examination, very few indeed of them turn out 

 not to belong to the Laurel family. Of oaks, Pasmng in their 

 tongue, they discriminate sixteen different species, commencing 

 their list with the one they consider most typical, just as we find 

 in our own catalogues of birds, among the Warblers for instance, 

 Cisticola cidicola representing the typical specias, the Sunda- 

 nese say Passang letid, or " true oak," for what they consider 

 the oak of oaks. Among animals their system of classification 

 into genera is not carried so far ; but all the more distinctive 

 groups, especially those living in communities, and every 

 insect and bird, if in any way peculiar or where it can be mis- 

 taken for another, have each their own binomial appellation. 



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was nearly all second growth, with scarcely any of what I was 

 principally in search of for my herbarium-specimens pt the 

 primal trees. Birds, however, were more plentiful, and in tne 

 avenue-like roads and paths, stretching for miles m the neigh- 



ood, butterflies and other insects were very -^^^^^'f^f^' 

 but though interesting to me, and occasionally new to the 

 ornithology or entomology of the Malayan region, most ot 



bonrl 



Amid 



them were species well known to science, ^nnu .w .^i~ 

 of low scrub in front of my door, on which the ^"^^1-^1^;^ 

 the neighbouring villages wandered more «* /l^^';^ °^ " ^^ 



ted by +1-- voun- herds, stood withm gnn.ho. of 



man airectea m ineir joujig ^v,..^^, - i- ~„nn+P«lns 



n.y verandah table several tall trees, from -^/f ' ^f^^f,^. .^^^ 

 *W ^n,.. of .11 hn.r« of the day by different kinds of buds, 1 



they were at all hours of the day by 



was constantly able to add with great ^.^^ .^"/;7 -{j^nve 



and to observe the habits of many species that it .ould ha.e 



been difficult otherwise to see ^,^^ 



I never tired of watching '^.'^ '^'^^^^ ^^ and 



TV^'^tr^^^^ inimpitient flocks 

 their bovine hosts, fhey used lo ^^ 



about the hour of the return of the h.rd t ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ 

 grounds from the wallowing boles, wniintr 



