10 LIST OF THE MAMMALS OF PENRISSEN. 
most markedly in different localities, mountain forms 
being as a rule much darker and redder, 
12. Sciurus hippurus Geoff. 
13. Sciurus tenuis Horsf. 
14. Sciurus (Funambulus) everetti Thos. 
15. Nannosciurus melanotis Müll. and Schleg. 
16. Mus margarette Thos. This pretty little mouse was seen 
about the house one evening, but it eluded all efforts to 
-catch it. 
17. Sus barbatus Müll. 
18. Cervus equinus Cuv. 
The Birds of Mount Penrissen and 
Neighbouring District. 
The bird fauna of Mount Penrissen as evinced by collec- 
tions made in the month of May of this year (1899) has proved 
to be most disappointingly sparse, and this list must compare 
somewhat unfavourably with those of the late Mr. Whitehead’s 
collections on Mt. Kina Balu and of Mr. С. Hose’s collections on 
Mt. Dulit. Not only was the number of species obtained small, 
but bird-life in general, with the exception of Barbets, was most 
noticeably scarce. I attribute this scarcity partly to the fact that 
the mountain has long been the happy hunting-ground of the 
Land Dyaks, 60 % of whom are armed with guns; all the game 
ther saw nor heard one, whilst hornbills, profiting by a large ex- 
perience of the sound of a shot, were very difficult to approach. 
A good collection of low-country birds was made at Pankalan 
Ampat, at the head of the left-hand branch of the Sarawak river, 
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