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a Par})le and a Yellow Utriculana and two species of Xyris 

 were very conspicuous. Melastomaceous plants and Begonias, 

 in contradistinction to the flora of the Perak main range, were 

 by no means common and only two or three species of ginger- 

 worts were met with. We did not see a single tree fern. 



Collections were made in all groups of the animal kingdom 

 and rather over two hundred species of flowering plants were 

 obtained amongst which was an unusually large proportion of 

 orchids. Very many species however were not in flower or in 

 fruit at the time of our visit and it was therefore impossible to 

 obtain identifiable specimens. This was especially the case 

 among the Gesneraceae, of which about a dozen species were 

 noted. 



Animal life was extraordinarily poor, not only in species but 

 also in individuals, and the only group represented by large 

 numbers of specimens is the Lepidoptera Heterocera, of which 

 considerable series were obtained by the use of a Lux lamp at 

 night. In other groups the Millipedes were perhaps most 

 abundant, though the number of species was not large. Al 

 orders of day flying insects were extremely scarce. 



The most interesting capture of the trip was a specimen of 

 Eoperipatus secured by a collector belonging to Dr. R. 

 Hanitsch of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, who accompanied 

 us. A single specimen was obtained in rotten wood at about 

 2,goo ft : though diligently searched for by ten other collectors 

 for a day no other specimens were met with. The collections 

 as worked out will be published group by group in this Journal. 

 In the present number lists are given of the vertebrates. 



Owing to the fact that there is now a railway station at 

 its eastern foot, Kedah Peak has become very accessible and it 

 is one of the easiest mountains to ascend that we have visited. 

 From a practical point of view perhaps the most interesting 

 feature attaching to it is that at about 3,300 ft. there exists a 

 far better site for several hill bungalows than we know of at 

 any similar altitude in the Peninsula. 



The ascent from Gurun Station to Padang 'toh Seh, 3,200 

 ft., takes about three hours and the return journey about half that 

 time. For the first two thousand feet the going is excellent in 

 dry weather, a smooth and broad track having been formed by 

 the extraction of baulks of timber drawn by buffalo, but as the 

 subsoil is clayey this road becomes very slippery after rain 

 though it is nowhere steep. 



Between 1,500 ft. and 2,500 ft. there are an unusual num- 

 ber of flat spaces or slightly rounded ridges such as we have 

 noted nowhere else and to this altitude the forest is open, with 

 but little undergrowth. 



Padang 'toh Seh is an open, somewhat rocky area (with 

 abundant water near by) in a shallow gully between the actual 

 summit and a ridge to the north. It is on the main track 

 ■which continues westward and shortly beyond the Padang falls 



