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thick and alas! thorny bush, when buz-z-z there came flying down the 
road at an astonishing pace a huge sand-wasp which H. recognized as a 
prize, having seen one in my collection. It was Scola procer, which by 
the way is rare in Tenasserim. He struck at it wildly and got it in, 
but the end of the net was hitched up in the thorny bush and the 
efforts of the Scolia to escape were terrific. McH., another forest 
officer who happened to be with H. at the time, told me afterwards 
that the sight of H. struggling with that ferocious Scolza in the 
hitched-up net and endeavourmg to get the beast into a two-inch 
cyanide killing-bottle, while he tried at the same time to keep his 
own footing on the fearfully steep slope, was a thing he would never 
forget. McH. declares so remarkable was the language used that on 
the road at that spot for hours afterwards the air had a most 
sulphurous and brimstonic smell about it. However the Scolia was 
secured, which was the chief thing after all, and by H.’s kindness now 
adorns my cabinet. Gampsorhynchus torquatus was discovered by 
Davison in Northern Tenasserim, and I subsequently procured it on 
this very road. It extends down southwards to as far at any rate 
as Ye, where I came across it in the dense ever-green forests on the 
Minla stream. 
So far as i have had opportunities of observing the bird, it occurs 
only in the heavy ever-green hill forests, never descending to the 
plains. It is always in flocks, and works noisily through the jungle 
exactly like garrulaz. 
By the time we got to Taungjah (lt. valley) itself, where the road 
descends from one ridge and ascends another, thesun was well up, 
and in the open valley here birds and insects were all abroad in 
numbers. We shot several specimens of a beautiful broad-bill (Psar- 
somus dalhousie), which was going about in small flocks of six or 
seven. It is one of the stupidest of birds. A flock will allow its 
individual members to be shot down one after another without moving 
from the tree they are perched on. We got here also specimens 
of the coral-billed hill bulbul (Aypsipetes concolor), and two or three 
of that plain plumaged minivet, Pericrocotus cantonensis. The species of 
butterflies and other insects were much the same as those procured 
yesterday, but I got a fine Papilio and two or three Arhopalus that I 
had not met with below. On the ascent of the opposite ridge to 
