XXXIV. NOTES ON THE VERTEBRATE FAUNA 
OF THE PAHANG-JOHORE ARCHIPELAGO. 
Plates VI—VII. 
By H. C. RosInson. 
I. A LIST oF BIRDS FROM PULAU TINGGI. 
Pulau Tinggi is a mountainous island on the East Coast 
of Johore from which it is separated by about ten miles of 
sea carrying but little more than ten fathoms. In maximum 
length it is about seven miles and in breadth about three 
miles while the central conical peak, which is visible from 
a great distance, is a little over two thousand feet in height. 
On the West and South-west sides there are several 
small bays which are inhabited by a small mixed Malay- 
Jakun population which has much decreased of late years, 
owing to the ravages of small-pox, malaria and cholera. 
They are very poverty-stricken and subsist on fishing, on 
the collection of pearl shell (gewang) and edible birds nests on 
the surrounding islets and on the produce of somewhat 
indifferent coconut plantations. 
There are numerous small islets in the immediate vici- 
nity but none of any importance. 
There is good anchorage for small craft between an 
outlying reef and the shore in one or two places on the 
South and Southwest Coasts but on the North and East the 
coast is steep-to. Inthe S. W. monsoon water is scarce and 
bad. 
Some forty or more years ago the island in its higher 
parts was devastated by a cyclone and much of the jungle 
blown down. The dominant tree on the hills is now pulai 
(Alstonia scholaris) but there is much rattan and a certain 
amount of bamboo. The littoral vegetation is of the type 
common to all Malayan islands which_are not fringed with 
mangrove. 
Except for the narrow belt of coconut cultivation on the 
shore and one or two small clearings for vegetables, etc., 
on the sides of the hills the island is covered with heavy 
tungle throughout, in contradistinction to Pulau Aor, the 
most seaward island of the group, which is planted with 
coconuts practically to the summit (Plate VI, upper figure) 
and Pulau Sri Buat, which is nearest to the Johore-Pahang 
Coast (Plate VII, lower figure) which is bare and rocky with 
patches of coarse wiry grass and thin scrub. 
The mammalian fauna is poor and uninteresting, consis- 
ting of a kra monkey (Macaca irus laetus), two rats, both of 
which are commensal on man, a squirrel of the vittatus type 
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