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COLLECTING WAYS AND COLLECTING DAYS. 
By Masor C. T. Bryenam, F.z.8., Morest Department, Burma. 
(Read before the Bombay Natural History Society, 1éth Nov., 1893.) 
Collecting on the Kawkareik aed Myawaddy Road, : 
I know of no forests in all this forest-bearing country of Tenasserim 
so interesting as those lying in the Hast Salween sub-division of 
the Salween—Ataran Forest Division. 
Apart from the fact that from a forest point of view the Hast 
Salween contains perhaps the most valuable forests in the province, the 
whole country, from the configuration of the land and from the char- 
acter of the vegetation covering it, forms the very happiest of hunting 
grounds for a natural history collector. From north-west to south- 
east right along the whole length of the sub-division runs the range 
of the Dawnat mountains, covered for the greater part by dense 
evergreen forests, and possessing peaks running to 4,000 and 5,000 
feet. 
One of these, Mulayit, has been made famous by the collections 
made thereon by Mr. Limborg, the late Mr. W. Davison, and Signor 
Fea. The Dawnat range forms the water-shed between the Thaungyin 
river on the east and the Hlamgbwé and Haungdraw rivers on the 
west. For the most part it is covered by unbroken forests, and its 
wilder portions are only known to the wandering Karens ; no white 
man has penetrated to their depths. Here and there rough pathways, 
leading over high and rugged passes, cross the range, and being often 
the only breaks for: miles in the dense forests are, at most times, 
thronged with birds and insects. In all Tenasserim I do not know any 
collecting ground so good as the road leading from Kawkareik, a large 
village in the Haungdraw valley across the Taungjah pass (1,500 ft.) 
to Myawaddy, a village on the Siamese frontier in the Thaungyin 
valley. For some reason or another, possibly attracted by the dense 
evergreen vegetation, many Malayan species, both of birds and insects, 
originally recorded from the Malay Archipelago, Malacca, or from the 
extreme south of Tenasserim, creep up along the Dawnat range 
