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Reprinted from Journal, Federated Malay States Museums; Voth 
No. 2.] : ; 
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ON MAMMALS AND BIRDS FROM TRENGGANG=——— 
By CC, BODEN KLOSS, F.z.s., M.B.O.U. 
NU is a district of the Malay Peninsula that bas received 
very little attention from zoologists. In September and Octuber, 
1900, I visited it with Dr. W. L. Abbott in his yacht ‘ Terrapin,” and 
we spent a month working various places on the coast between the 
Trengganu and Kemaman Rivers. In September, 1910, 1 went there 
again, accompanied by the Museum Dyak collectors. ; 
The results of both visits were a little disappointing. Owing to the 
nature of the soil and the great amount of clearing that has taken 
place in remote times along the coast, we could not reach any good 
collecting spots from our schooner on the first occasion ; later, on my 
return from the exploration of the Redang and Perhentian Islands, 
I was pressed for time and, as the month was the month of fasting 
(bulan puasa), the natives not unreasonably refused to engage as 
carriers or boatmen to the inland districts. Thanks, however, to the 
assistance of the British Agent, Mr. W. D. Scott, who lent us his 
motor-boat, we were enabled to proceed seven or eight miles up the 
Sungei Nerus which enters the north bank of the Trengganu River, a 
mile above the town of that name, and a camp was made near Bukit 
Jong, a small hill 700 or 800 feet im height, on which still remains 
a small amount of virgin jungle. A week was passed in this locality, 
not a good one for our purpose, but the best available under the 
circumstances. 
An excursion by canoe was also made to Pulau Kapas, an island 
which lies 1] miles south from Trengganu and a mile from shore, in the 
hope that species of small mammals might be found thereon. The trip 
was almost without result ; two or three common birds and a form of 
Mus rattus alone being met with: and the latter was stated to be the 
only mammal inhabiting the island. 
As no report on the visit of the * Terrapin ” has been published, I 
now combine in one list the species then obtained and those of my 
more recent collections : of the first collection, the mammals are from 
my notes ; for the birds I am indebted to Dr. C. W. Richmond, of the 
United States National Museum; and both are indicated by their 
localities, which at this date Ican only give as ** Coast of Trengganu” ; 
though our principal collecting grounds were Trengganu Town, 
Tanjong Dungun, Pakeh River, Tanjong Laboha and Kuala Kemaman. 
The only other visit of which I am aware is that paid by Messrs. 
Evans and Laidlaw, of the “ Skeat ” Expedition in October, 1899, when 
mamunals appear to have been collected by both these gentlemen and 
birds by the latter. Mr. I. I. Bonhote in his reports on their 
keb,, 1911, 
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HY Cai 
