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CHAPTER IX. 



BOENEO. 



Indian Butterfly-flower Mangrove, Casuarina, and other trees Bird- 

 catching plant Curious Tree-louse Nidification of Pigeons 

 New Bulimus Wasps' and Ants' nests Borneon Mammifera 

 Haunts of Molluscous animals Their Habits Localities of certain 

 fresh-water species Habits of Crustaceans Singular larvae In- 

 stincts and varied forms of Spiders Visit Kabatuan Muda Mo- 

 hammed The Dusuns Molluscous animals. 



IN the course of our survey of the north-west coast of 

 Borneo, including Abai, the river of which is said to com- 

 municate with the waters of Kini Balu lake ; Tampassook, 

 the noted haunt of Illanon pirates ; Kabatuan, which has 

 the brother of Muda Hassim for Rajah ; and Ambong, 

 peopled chiefly by Bajows or sea-gipsies, we obtained 

 several interesting forms, more particularly from that 

 southern portion of the Chinese Sea, which washes this 

 part of the Borneon coast. 



Balambangan is a very flat and most unwholesome 

 looking island, covered in a great part of its extent with 

 Mangroves and Casuarinas, and in parts, where fresh- 

 water pools occur, overrun with pitcher-plants (Nepenthes 

 destillatoria) . The Phaleenopsis amabilis or Indian But- 

 terfly plant, at the time of our visit, was in full flower. 



