8 A TRIP TO MT. PENRISSEN, SARAWAK. 
revenue we returned to Kuching, arriving on June 4th. 
Taken as a whole, the expedition was a great success, but 
the very great scarcity of mammals and birds was disappoint- 
ing; only two kinds of monkey were seen. ‘The cry of a solitary 
Wa-Wa was heard, but occasionally; pigs, deer, kijang and 
pelandok were noticeable only by their absence, and not a single 
ame bird was procured or even seen. This scarcity I attribute 
suspect that this the Southern end of Sarawak in less faunisti- 
cally rich than the more Northern regions. Certainly the list of 
birds which we obtained оп Penrissen must compare somewhat 
unfavourably with those published by the late Mr. John White- 
head and by Mr. Charles Hose of Baram, two gentlemen whose 
labours on Mts. Kina Balu and Dulit are so well known in the 
zoological world. 
eptiles and amphibia were moderately abundant, and three 
species of fish were captured in a mountainstream by the use of 
Tuba. The invertebrate fauna was extremely rich, and much 
attention was paid to forming large collections of insects, and 
arthropods in general, a:d I am confident that, entomologically 
at least, no mountain in Borneo has been зо well worked at as 
was Penrissen during our stay there. 
'ery little time was at our disposal to collect satisfactorily 
the flora of the mountain; the small collections made, however, 
have proved to be of such interest (see Appendix to the article) 
that I have determined to send back my collectors to the mountain 
in October, almost entirely to botanise. 
. . Lists of the animals obtained will appear from time to time 
in this Journal in the order in which they are worked out. At 
present I am indebted to Mr. Ridley for working out the plants 
(Phanerogams only) obtained, and to His Lordship the Bishop 
of Singapore and Sarawak for the appended list of, and remarks 
on, the ferns. 
R. Shelford, 
