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at a high elevation.’ Little was done in the way of mammals and birds, the 
Perak Government declining to allow shooting on the hills, Spirit specimens 
were obtained of a rat (Mus surifer) recently described by American natural- 
ists from specimens obtained by Dr. W, L. Abbott, at Trong, Lower Siam,and a 
small black shrew (Crocidura fuliginosa). I had an opportunity of examining a 
young serow (Nemorhedus) caught alive by some coolies near the cottage, 
and the similarity of this young specimen to the adults I have seen confirms 
me in my opinion that the serow of these hillsis not, as has hitherto been 
supposed, Nemorhedus sumatrensis, but a distinct and new species, 
Six species of scorpions were collected and sent home to be worked out, 
A small collection of Millepedes was also made, 
Thirty-one species of butterflies were collected. A list of these has been 
published already in the Gazette (18th May), : 
2, VISIT To SINGAPORE,—24th June to 1st July.—On this visit to the Raffles 
Museum’ I obtained a knowledge of their desidcrata and of their duplicates 
available for exchange, and was able to arrange a system of exchanges which 
will, I hope, in future be of mutual advantage. I brought back some valu- 
able specimens, including the following reptiles, new to our collection: 
Lygosoma bowringit, Befo quadriporcatus, Hipsirhina boccourti, Microhyla 
achattna, Microhyla ornata, Hemidactylus platyurus, Jpalura nigrilabris, Tachy- 
dromus sexlineitus, Gonatodes offinis, &c.,and a specimen of the rare and beauti- 
ful crested falcon (Baza lophoies). One day was devoted to an excursion to 
Bukit Timah, with Mr. Ridley, to hunt for a very rare—but very small— 
toad (Nectophryne guentheri) which was known to occur in that locality. 
One specimen was procured just before we gave up the search in the evening. 
I also brought back half a dozen tortoises of three species, kindly given me 
by Mr, Ridley : Geoemyda spinosa, Cyclemys platynota and Cyclemys amboi- 
nensis. I spent two days in examining the reptile collections in the Raffles 
Museum, and obtained many notes for a paper on the Reptiles and Batra- 
chians of the Peninsula, on which I have been working for two years and 
which I hope shortly to publish, 
; A, L. BUTLER, 
Curator, 
(From the Silangor Government Gazette.) 
No, VIIL—ON THE LONGEVITY OF THE PERSIAN BULBUL. 
Trustworthy evidence ‘as to the longevity of birds being always difficult to 
obtain, I venture to think that the following facts are worthy of record :— 
In 1891, nine years ago, I purchased a Persian Bulbul (Molpastes lewcotis) 
from one of the nurses at the Cama Hospital, Bombay, whose brother-in- 
law, Captain Jourdain, had brought it, four or five years before, when it was 
quite young, from the Persian Gulf, It soon became perfectly tame and lead a 
life of liberty and happiness. It was only confined ina cage at night, and 
