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be a waterfall from the top of the western island to the sea in wet 

 weather. Oencral formation, sandstone. 



We obtained little of interest: a new form of dwarfed Schvi^iiH 

 canieeps, with representative races on each islet; trreen pi^jeon, 

 Miiscddlvovi'x Kdipn, ColociKin n Icohdrlcd ; two species of sunbird ; 

 and a mangrove flycatcher; while we saw crows and sea-eagles and 

 heard a hawk-owl. We stayed here two nights. 



KOH PllMDON. 



A limestone island in Ghirbi Bay, near Piiket, ab )ut ten miles 

 from the shore, the eastern side fairly flat and covered with heary 

 jnngle amongst which immense Aroids, 12-18 ft. high (Coloens'ia), 

 were cri-owin};. The western side, a maofnificent crat; of vaiiecrated 

 greyish limestone almost marble in parts : on this crag the vegetation 

 was interesting but little was in flower. We noticed some large 

 Dracaence, Euphorh'm quadrdiigularis and masses of the huge 

 orchid, Htditrdp^iifi ffif/<t'^ Bentham. 



We obtained little of interest — a new S(piirrel, a bat or two 

 and a few connnon birds ; and noted, but did not obtain, two species 

 of Collocalui and Hlrundo had la. 



Junk Sevlon or Puket or Toxgka. 



Three hours steam from Koh Pipidon. On the present 

 occasion we stayed three days coaling and taking in water, which 

 was bad and hard to obtain ; but did not collect, as the island had 

 been thoroughly worked by a party of ours the year previously. We 

 noted vultures in numbers (Pseudogypti heng(deniiifi) feeding on ofl'al 

 in the town, and one or two King Vultures (Otogypi^ c(dv}t>i) outside 

 the actual town. 



Pang-nga or Punga, 



On our way north we visited Pang-nga, at the head of the 

 bay, and some miles up a muddy river lined with mangrove and 

 dotted here and there with limestone rocks. The town is pictur- 

 esquely situitad between tall limestone cliffs, with a clear rippling 

 stream running between, but had recently been burnt down. On its 

 outskirts was a cool and shady Wat or Siamese temple. 



On our way north we passed through the straits separating 



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