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Buo, Padang Highlands, 280 M. 
The country round this village is entirely cultivated. 
The gardens and plantations yielded a good number of 
birds and here, as in Aur, I obtained a large collection of 
birds of prey. 
Near Buo is a well-known cave, formed by a river, 
which flows underneath a range of limestone hills. 
Danau di Atas (lake), Alahan Pandjang, Padang Highlands, 
1500 M. 
See under Alahan Pandjang. 
Fort de Kock, Agam, Padang Highlands, 920 M. 
The principal town of the Padang Highlands, entirely 
surrounded by cultivated grounds. No forest is to be 
found in its direct vicinity, but the deep canyon, on the 
brink of which the place is situated, harbours in its narrow 
side clefts some species of birds one would not expect 
in such cultivated surroundings. 
Fort van der Capellen, Padang Highlands, 465 M. 
The surroundings are entirely cultivated; there are 
extensive cinnamon plantations. 
Mount Dempu, Pasemah, Palembang, 900-2400 M. 
On the N.W. foot slope of this mountain I pitched my 
camps at different altitudes. The foot of the mountain is 
covered with coffee plantations and secondary forest. 
The old forest begins at 1200-1300 M. and reaches up 
to 1900 M., where it gradually thins out, to be replaced 
by smaller trees, covered over by thick cushions of moss 
and standing further apart. 
At 2000 M. the trees are dwarfed and all is merged 
in a mass of ferns and low plants. At 2400 M. low bushes 
of Rhododendron and Gaultheria have replaced the other 
trees ; above this zone the flora takes an alpine character, 
various Vacciniums, Anaphalis, and other high mountain 
plants making their appearance. My lowest station on the 
Dempu was at the coffee plantation Pasumah Estate, 900 
metres, where a stretch of secondary forest yielded many 
specimens of birds. 
The next station was a camp, which I pitched in the 
old forest on the Air Njuruk (1400 M.), an insignificant 
brook. It was situated between two other watercourses, 
the Air Bahar and the Air Gaung Ketjil, the last one being 
a wild mountain brook, running in a deep ravine with 
nearly perpendicular walls. The forest at this zone was 
composed of very tall trees, and the undergrowth was 
easy to cut through. 
