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feet, that they woakl take to flight wliile beyond gunshot. 

 Along the river there was some green undergrowth^ but it 

 was almost deserted ; the prevailing colour of the foliage 

 was yellow and pink, but when I came back in May every- 

 thing was clothed with a beautiful tender green. 



We got 102 species here, some of which came from heights 

 up to 1500 ft. Jungle-fowl atul the Pheasant, Diardigallus 

 diardl, were numerous, as was the Collared Dove ; on the 

 hill sides I shot two specimens of the beautiful Pygmy Hawk 

 Microhierax eutolmus, and the little Owl Glaucidium cucu- 

 loides sometimes perched in the branches above the camp. 

 A common, but hitherto rarely collected bird was the Great 

 Barbet, Megaleema lagrandieri ; I got here also Gecinulus 

 grantia, which has only once been recorded from French 

 Indo China, G. erytliropygius, and Chrysophlegmaflacinucha 

 pierrei. Other interesting occurrences were Thereiceryx 

 flavostnctns, Chloropsis aurifrons inornata, a new form of 

 Xardhiscus flavescetis, lole oUvacea chinamomeoventris, Garru- 

 lax moniliger mouhuti, a new race of Herpoinis xantholeuca, 

 Ainpeliceps coronatus, and jfEthopyga siparaja tonkinensis. 



On 29 March I started to transfer my camp some five 

 or six miles uphill, but, owing to an insufficient supply cxf 

 carriers (Moi men and women from the mountains), two 

 journeys had to be made. 



Above Daban the mountains rise steeply, and at 2700 ft. 

 the first pine occurs ; at 3000 ft. is reached the edge of the 

 first plateau or shelf in the mountains, and from a spot 

 called Bellevue at the edge a glorious view is obtained down 

 the slopes and across the plain to the coastal hills and the 

 sea. The country at and above 3000 ft. is principally pine- 

 forest (^Pinus Khasya and Pinus Merkusii) and grass-land, 

 but in the guUeys occur stretches ol: leafy non-coniferous 

 jungle. 



With pine-clad hills rising to 4000 ft. close by to the 

 northj from which a few specimens came, we settled down in 

 an empty house in the Annamite village of Suoi-kat, about 

 a mile and a half from Bellevue; but I have labelled all 

 my collections as made at Dran, which is a Government 



