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The birds collected iu the province of Bandon, with the exception 

 of perhaps half a dozen specimens obtained c?i ronte, were all secured 

 in three localities regarding which it may .perhaps be of interest to 

 give some particulars. ^ 



1. BAN KOK KLAP, T 



A large hamlet in the amphurr of Lampum on the banks of the hk 



river of that name, which is a fair sized tributary of the Bandon river, 

 the village is about four miles to the west of the main line of the 

 Bangkok-Singapore Railway, which has a station at Lampum and on 

 which ballast trains were already running at the time of our visit. 



The village is situated at the foot of the 'range of hills running 

 about N.W. to S.E., which in their noi'thern part separate the 

 province of Bandon from that of Nakon Sitamarat, attaining a ■ 



maximum elevation of slightly over 4,200 feet in Kao Nawng. 



The population in the neighbourhood of Ban Kok Klap was 

 considerable ; there was much cultivated land, orchards in which betel 

 palms, mango, langsat and coconut palms were the principal fruit 

 trees, large tracts of rice and patches of Indian corn and hill 

 padi. Much destruction of jungle has taken place for these last two 

 products, the abandoned land growing up in bamboo and secondary 

 growth amongst which a species of stinging shrub was very common. 



To the north and east of the village were several limestone hills, of 

 the type usual in the Malay Peninsula, all of them much fissured 

 and shattei-ed, though no caves of any considerable extent seem to 

 occur in them. 



The fauna was not of any special interest being very similar to that 

 found in Trang on the other side of the main range. 



In the I'ice fields, wood-duck, tree-teal and wattled plovers were 

 very common and an occasional pea-fowl was met with, though these 

 are much more abundant when the padi is in ear, the rice fields being 

 in stubble at the time of our visit. 



In the orchard lands hill-mynas (Eulahes), glossy starlings 

 (Calornis), -pied hoi-nbills {Anthracocerns) and several species of wood- 

 pecker were the most noticeable birds, while in the bamboo thickets 

 jungle partidges {Ccdoperdix and Troincoperdix) were very abundant . 

 but were almost impossible to obtain owing to a long continued a 



drought having so dried up the dead leaves underfoot that, even for f 



a Dyak, a noiseless approach was out of the question. 



We collected at Ban Kok Klap from 29th June to 6th July, 1913. ^ 



2. KAO NAWNG (lower camp). 



This was situated on the upper reaches of the river flowing past 

 Ban Kok Klap, probably about fifteen miles distant from that place 

 at a height above sea-level of about 1,200 feet and quite close to the 

 divide leading down to Nakon Sitamarat. 



