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we found about half of the mangled teal. The rest the hawk must have 
eaten on the shore, whence it carried off the remainder only because we 
came up, I think it would be natural for birds of prey to carry away and 
eat their victims at a little distance from the plucked-out feathers, lest they 
should stick to the carcase and get in their beaks as they eat ; but this hawk 
may have been in a hurry, as we were approaching. 
AGNES 8, BELL, 
Camp Banna (N-W. P.), 7th December, 1900. 
No. VII—NOTES ON TRIPS TO PERAK AND SINGAPORE, 
1, Trip To PERAK.—19th March to 18th April—During this trip I 
devoted myself principally to making a large and representative collection of 
the reptiles and batrachians of the Larut Hills. The result was highly 
successful, 351 specimens of 56 species being obtained. The majority of 
these were of great rarity and interest, Ten species, new to science, were 
discovered and have been described by Mr. Boulenger of the British Museum 
in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. They include five new 
frogs: MMicrohyla annectens, Microhyla butleri, Ixalus larutensis, Ixalus vermi- 
culatus and Leptobrachiam hetoropus, Two flying lizards: Draco formosus and 
Draco punctatus, Three lizards: Lygosoma stellatum, Lygosoma preesigne and 
Gehyra larutensis, 
Four species not previously known to inhabit the Peninsula were obtained: 
Calamaria vermiformis, Typhlops albiceps, Lygosoma bamfyldit and Draco micro- 
lepis, Among other valuable captures were: Lygosoma larutense, Lygosoma 
malayanum, Gehyra butleri, Draco blanfordii, Mezalophrys longipes, Phrynella 
pollicaris, Rana latopalmata, Ixalus pictus (found by Mr. Hale), Rana hascheana, 
Microphyla leucostigma, Icthyophis monochrous, Lycodon butleri, Amblycephalus 
vertebralis, Macrocalamuslateralis,etc. Many of these have only been obtained 
once or twice before ; all are of great rarity, I was able to present to the 
British Museum an important collection of duplicates ; other specimens were 
exchanged with the Raffles Museum, Singapore, and many more are still 
available for exchanges, 
The British Museum authorities congratulated me on the success of this 
trip. 
Mr, Hale, who was spending a month’s leave on the hills at the same time, 
devoted his leisure to collecting land-shells, and procured 102 specimens of 
apparently 18 species. Many of these are rare and°valuable, but I am unable 
to give a complete list of them until a collection, sent to Europe for identi- 
fication and comparison with types, is returned to me. Itis curious that on 
his expedition to Kina Balu, British North Borneo (1899), Dr. Hanitsch also 
procured 18 species of land shells, and the Asian, in noticing the result of 
his expedition, observed that anyone who had collected these mollusca would 
appreciate the difficulty of obtaining so many species from any one locality 
