Ptg. 352/13. 



LIST OF A SMALL COLLECTION OF BIRDS AND 

 MAMMALS FROM GUNONG KERBAU, PERAK. 



By HERBERT C. ROBINSON, c.m.z.s., m.b.o.u. . 



/^ UNONG Kerbau, in Kinta, near the Perak-Kelantan boundary 

 but entirely in Perak, is the second highest mountain in the 

 Malay Peninsula, attaining a height of 7,170 feet — only 12 feet less 

 than Gunong Tahan. 



It has been ascended on numerous occasions, the first occasion 

 being by the French traveller De Morgan,^ and an interesting 

 account of the mountain is given by him and m^ore recently by 

 Mr. Scrivenor- (who calls it Gunong Riam) and reproduces some 

 interesting photographs of the m.ountain. 



With the exception of a few plants seciired by the native plant 

 collector attached to the Penang Botanic Gardens, who accompanied 

 Mr. Barnard, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Perak, on his ascent, 

 no collections whatever have been made on the mountain. 



I therefore made arrangements to despatch a party of Dyak 

 collectors thither, and, after the usual difficulties in the matter of 

 transport, they established themselves at a height of rather over 

 5,000 feet, and collected from there to the summit and down hill to 

 about 3,000 feet. 



As the flora was likely to prove of more interest than the fauna, 

 the greater part of their time was devoted to plant collecting, and 

 a considerable number of species seciu'ed, which will be reported on 

 in due course by Mr. Ridley. 



The collections were made between the end of February and the 

 end of March, and a list of the mamm.als and birds is given below, but 

 as will be seen the mountain has yielded little of special importance. 



Thanks are due to the Forest Department for assistance rendered 

 in the matter of obtaining coolies, who were only secured with great 

 difficulty and proved a very poor lot when obtained. Without this 

 help our men would not have been able to work the hill as collecting 

 impedimenta are weighty and bulky. 



^ " Explorations clans la presq'ile Malaise." Bulletin de la Society 

 Normande de Geographie, VIII, pp. 14], 211 and 281 (1886). 



- " Gunong Tahan and Gunong Riam." Journ. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. 

 No. 62, pp. 8-21, Pts. I-IV (1912). r 



Jati., 1914. 



