Reprinted from ** Journal, Federated Malay States Museums,” Vol. IV, 
Nos. 3 & 4.] 
A LIST OF A SMALL COLLECTION OF MAMMATLS AND 
BIRDS FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF ULU LANGAT, 
SELANGOR. 
By H. C: ROBINSON, G.M.z.s., 1.3.0.0. 
oot the present collection was made the southern limit of what 
has been termed the Himalayo-Sondaic element in the fauna of 
the Malay Peninsula had been placed at the Ginting Bidei Pass leading 
across the Main Range of the Peninsula from Selangor to Pahang, at 
an elevation of about 2,300 feet. On the mountains north of this line, 
above 3,000 feet, the dominant species of birds are of Himalayan or 
Sumatran facies, while further to the south on the hills of Neeri Sem- 
bilan and on Mount Ophir on the Johore-Malaccan border, which 
approach or shghtly exceed 4,000 feet, such forms are entirely absent. 
The Massif on which the present collection was made at elevations 
slightly under and over 4,000 feet lies to the south-west of Ginding 
Bidei and attains in Bukit Nuane a maximum height of about 4,900 
feet. 
The actual locality visited was on the head-waters of the Langat 
river near the summit of a mountain known to the local Sakais as 
Menang Gasing. Five of the Dyak collectors of the Museums spent 
ten days there at the end of May and the commencement of June, 
TO ¥. 
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