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deal in part with the mammals included in the present paper, but 

 the collections as a whole are here published for the first time. 



A list of the localities visited by Doctor Abbott is given below, 

 together with his geographical and natural history field-notes. Many 

 of these localities are not to be found on the ordinary maps, and 

 reference should be made to the maps on pages 55 and 57. 



LIST OF LOCALITIES, WITH GEOGRAPHICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY 

 FIELD-NOTES BY DR. W. L. ABBOTT. 



West Bornean mainland, June 6-September 16, 1907. 



Sukadana (or SuJcudana). — At Sukudana a mass of hills 1,000 to 2,000 feet high rise 

 right from the seashore. They are well forested, but there are many plantations of 

 durians and other fruit upon their slopes and many clearings in the neighborhood. 

 The sea is very shallow near the coast; otherwise it would have been a good collecting 

 ground for me, 1 as animal life is abundant in the neighborhood. The inhabitants 

 are all Malays except a few Chinese traders and small planters. 



Sempang River. — The country along the Sempang River is low and swampy, very 

 little above high water, as is also nearly all west Borneo near the coast. The lower 

 part of the principal affluent, the Semandang, is also low and flat. The headwaters 

 of both rivers are among the hills. The low country is for the most part heavy forest, 

 with a strip of clearing along the river banks. The hilly country is inhabited by 

 Dyaks and here there is comparatively little virgin forest remaining. The greater 

 part of the surface is covered with secondary jungle. A few rhinoceroses are said to 

 inhabit the upper Sempang about Batu Dayeu (or Dajeuh). A much larger cat 

 than Felis nebulosa occurs, called by Malays and Dyaks "rimow." It must be very 

 rare, as very few people whom I met had ever seen it. The big red pig (Sus gargantuaf) 

 I heard of from both Dyaks and Malays, especially about the upper Sempang River, 

 but not reported at all common. 



Matan (or Matai) River. — The Sungei Matan enters the Sempang at the rajah's 

 kampong (village) called Sempang. I camped about 12 miles up (A\ hours) at a place 

 called Matan. Formerly there was a large kampong there but it was abandoned 

 twenty to thirty years since. Most of the neighborhood is large secondary jungle. 

 The hill called Matan was close by. Animal life was very abundant, and orang-utans 

 plentiful. There are no permanent villages now upon the Sungei Matan, except 

 on the slopes of the hill called Sepunchok, about 2\ hours above Sempang, where 

 there are eight families. 



Mount Palung. — Palung is 1,110 meters in height. I ascended Panti and remained 

 one night; saw no mammals high up. Panti [not shown on map] is one of the hills of 

 Palung. It is somewhere about 3,500 feet. Rhinoceroses are said to inhabit the 

 lowlands about the base of Palung. No tapir or banting (Bos) in this part of Borneo. 



Southwest Bornean mainland, June 17-September 29, 1908. 



Kendawangan River. — The country along the lower Kendawangan River, as else- 

 where in west Borneo, is mostly swamp, just above high-water mark. Occasional 

 higher patches and tracts occur which always remain dry and are called "pematong," 

 about what we call "islands" in swamps or "hummocks" in Florida. There are no 

 hills close to the lower river except at Mankol. At Lanchut, 30 miles from the mouth, 

 there is quite a large tract of dry land extending back to Mount Kedio, 4 miles from 

 the river. About Kalang Anyer, a Malay kampong of three houses, 70 miles from the 

 mouth, the banks become higher, with but little swamp. A few miles higher up the 

 hilly and rolling country is reached, the Dyak country, where most of the original 

 jungle has been destroyed and now covered with secondary jungle, scrub, and "alang 



i Doctor Abbott travels about in a schooner, and the anchorage probably was poor. 



