THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 880. —October 15th, 1914. 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES ON A COLLECTING 

 EXPEDITION IN BOENEO. 



By J. C. Moulton, F.Z.S., Curator of the Sarawak Museum. 



The naturalist who wishes to inflict his tale on a patient 

 reader ought to have one at least of these three excuses : — (i) a 

 real gift for observing and recording the wonders of Nature ; 

 (ii) a comparatively unknown or distant country to write about; 

 or (iii) a region of some historic interest. 



I claim these last two as my excuses for this paper : — (i) on 

 the grounds that Borneo is a month's journey from Piccadilly, 

 and (ii) that the journey I describe is almost identical with 

 that undertaken by the great naturalist, A. B. Wallace, nearly 

 sixty years ago. 



Wallace's ' Malay Archipelago,' justly regarded as a classic 

 among English books of travel, describes many an interesting 

 excursion into the hidden recesses of these wonderful Malayan 

 islands. Some fifty or sixty years have now elapsed since Wallace 

 travelled in the Malay islands, and the dread march of civiliza- 

 tion has wrought sweeping changes in some of them, although 

 others still remain much as then. I have already described two 

 places * made famous by the great naturalist in the ' Malay 

 Archipelago,' and now offer to readers of the ' Zoologist ' a 

 brief account of a journey in the interior of Sarawak, over 



* " Where Wallace Trod," being some account of an entomological trip 

 to Mt. Serambu, Sarawak, Borneo, ' Entomologist,' 1912, pp. 213 and 246. 

 " A Brief Visit to Malacca," ' Entomologist,' 1913, p. 278. 



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