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The birds collected in the province of Bandon, with the exception 
of perhaps half a dozen specimens obtained en route, were all secured 
in three localities regarding which it may perhaps be of interest to 
give some particulars. 
1, BAN KOK KLAP. 
A large hamlet in the amphurr of Lampum on the banks of the 
yiver of that name, which is a fair sized tributary of the Bandon river, 
the village is about four miles to the west of the main line of the 
Bangkok-Singapore Railway, which has a station at Lampum and on 
which ballast trains were already running at the time of our visit. 
The village is situated at the foot of the range of hills running 
about N.W. to S.E., which in their northern part separate the 
province of Bandon from that of Nakon Sitamarat, attaining a 
maximum elevation of slightly over 4,200 feet in Kao Nawng. 
The population in the neighbourhood of Ban Kok Klap was 
considerable ; there was much cultivated land, orchards in which betel 
palms, mango, langsat and coconut palms were the principal fruit 
trees, large tracts of rice and patches of Indian corn and hill 
padi. Much destruction of jungle has taken place for these last two 
products, the abandoned land growing up in bamboo and secondary 
erowth amongst which a species of stinging shrub was very common. 
To the north and east of the village were several limestone hills, of 
the type usual in the Malay Peninsula, all of them much fissured 
and shattered, though no caves of any considerable extent seem to 
occur in them. 
The fauna was not of any special interest being very similar to that 
found in Trang on the other side of the main range. 
In the rice fields, wood-duck, tree-teal and wattled plovers were 
very common and an occasional pea-fowl was met with, though these 
are much more abundant when the padi is in ear, the rice fields bemg 
in stubble at the time of our visit. 
In the orchard lands hill-mynas (Hulabes), glossy starlings 
(Calornis), pied hornbills (Anthracoceros) and several species of wood- 
pecker were the most noticeable birds, while in the bamboo thickets 
jungle partidges (Caloperdix and Tropicoperdiz) were very abundant 
but were almost impossible to obtain owing to a Jong continued 
drought having so dried up the dead leaves underfoot that, even for 
a Dyak, a noiseless approach was out of the question. 
We collected at Ban Kok Klap from 29th June to 6th July, 1913. 
2. KAO NAWNG (lower camp). 
This was situated on the upper reaches of the river flowing past 
Ban Kok Klap, probably about fifteen miles distant from that place 
at a height above sea-level of about 1,200 feet and quite close to the 
divide leading down to Nakon Sitamarat. 
