1919-] from South Annmn and Cochin. China. 3'J9 



Oa 3 April we walked the remaining eight miles into 

 Dalat along a slightly nndulating road, and from a hill 

 within two or three miles of the settlement got a splendid 

 view over the heart o£ the ))lateau region : in the foregroniid 

 open pine forest stretching away to the Langbian Peaks to 

 the north, on the left the open grass-covered plateau about 

 eight by five miles in extent with an average altitude of 

 5000 ft., undulating and nearly surrounded by low wooded 

 hills. Dalat consists of the houses and offices of half a 

 dozen Govern luent officials, a post-office, a little hotel, two 

 or three bungalows, and a small Annamite village. 



We camped for ten days in the pine-v/oods a few hundred 

 yards from the settlement, and on my return from the 

 Peaks I spent a further week (30 April to 6 May) near 

 some mixed forest a short distance beyond the falls of 

 the Camby River, another headwater of the Donnai. The 

 temperature in the early mornings was about 55°, in the 

 afternoon between 70° and 80°; the evenings were so cool 

 that large camp-fires of pine logs were thoroughly enjoyable. 



Some of the more interesting birds, not obtained below 

 Dalat, Le Bosquet, and A-rbre Broye, were Gennceus anna- 

 mensis, Sijrnium newdrense, D/geuia submbnillger, Muscicapula 

 melanoleuca, Fericrocolns (jrheicjularis, Stachyridupsis rufi- 

 ceps, Brachijpteryx carolince, B. nipulensis, Mulacias desgo- 

 dinsij Tesia ajanlrentris ollvea, Geocichlu citrina innotuta, 

 Cichloselys sibiricus, Oreocincla aureus angustirostris, Zoolhtra 

 marginata, lurdus obscurus, Oreicolu ferrea, Lusciiiiola latei- 

 ventris, L. taczanoivsJcia, Machlolophus spnlonotus, while new 

 species or subspecies weie secured of Arboricula rvfogularis, 

 Cyanops franklini, Dendrobiastes hyperythra, Cryptolopha 

 castuneiceps. C. tephrocephdla, Hemixus tickelli, Xanthiscus 

 flavescens, Trochalopteron, Rimator, Pnoepyga pusilla, Certhia 

 discolor, and JElthopyga gouldics. 



Altogether 89 species were obtained at heights between 

 4500 and 5500 ft. 



From Dalat we moved across the open plateau on 

 14 April and made a camp among oak trees of the 

 Langbian Peaks at COOO ft., where the highest permaneni 



