ON MAMMALS AND JB1KD8 FKOM TKKMKiAN L'. 

 Bv C. BODEN KLUSS, k.z.s., m.h.o.i . 



^I^RENGGANU is a district of the Malay IVninsula that liax mviv.-«J 



very little atteutiou from zoolo>,'ists. In ScptcmlHT and OtoU-r, 



1900, I visited it witli Dr. W. L. Ahhott in his ya<-lit " Terrapin. " an'l 



we spent a month working various places on lli a^t Ix-twii-n thi- 



Trengganu and Kemaman Rivers. In SeptemlM-i-. llMi', 1 \v«'nt tlu-n- 

 again, accompanied l»y the Museum Dyak collectors. 



The results of both visits were a little disappointing. Owing tu tin- 

 nature of the soil and the great amount of clearing that iiax taken 

 place in remote times along the coast, we coidd not reavh any g«xMl 

 collecting spots from oiu* schooner on the first occasion ; later, on niv 

 i-etvuTi from the exploration of the Redang and Perlientian Lslandn. 

 I was pressed for time and, as the month was the month t>f fasting 

 (biilan puasa), the natives not luircasoualily refiised to engage m 

 carriers or boatmen to the inland distiicts. Thanks, however, to the 

 assistance of the British Agent, Mr. W. D. Scott, who lent in* hJM 

 motor- boat, we were enabled to proceed seven or eight miles up tlie 

 Sungei Nerus which enters the north Itank of the Trengganu Kiver. a 

 mile above the town of that name, and a camp was made near Hukit 

 Jong, a small hill 700 or 800 feet in height, on whi.h ^till n-n.ain. 

 a small amount of virgin jungle. A week was passed in this loality. 

 not a good one for our piu-pose, but the Ijest available und.-r tl..- 

 circiunstauces. 



An excursion bv canoe was also ma*K' to I'ulau Kapas. an ihlau-l 

 which lies 11 miles south from Trengganu and a mile from nhow. in the 

 hope that species of small mammals miglit W f-.und theivon. The tnp 



was almost without result; two or thr •onunon birds an-l a fonn of 



Mus ratttis alone l)eing met with : and \hr latter was .tat^^l to N- the 

 only mannnal inha1>iting the island. 



As no report on the visit of the "Terrapin - has N-on publinh,.!. I 

 now combine in one list the species then obtaimsl and tho«e of n.v 

 more recent colleetions : of the first collection, the nm.nnmlH an- rou, 

 mv notes ; for the birds I am indebted to Dr. C W. Kichmond. of tlw- 

 United States National Muscmn ; and Ix^th are ind.cut.Hl by the.r 

 localities, which at this date I can only give as - Coast ..f 1 n-ngv-^uni . 

 though our principal collecting grounds weiv 1 r..ugjpin'« lo»... 

 Taujong Dungun, Pakeh River. Tanjonu' I^.l-Lu 'i'^l Ku«l« Keuu...u»«. 



The onlv other visit of which 1 am awa.v is tlmt ,«.d bv M.^r- 

 Evans and Laidlaw, of the " Skeat " Ex^ition ni atoU-T. 1 - ■ 



mammals appear to have l)eeu collected by lK,th the«o ^'^^^-^ 

 birds by the latb r. Mr. I. I. Bonhotc .n lus .x-l^rt. 00 IbeiT 



Feb.. mt. 



