go JOURNAL OF A TRIP TO PAHANG. 
steam in the launch. This was quite the best collecting- 
ground I had met with ; birds were numerous, and the sandy 
soil round the new station was full of the burrowing lizards ~ 
(Liolepis). 1 obtained six fine specimens. Of birds, I got four 
specimens of the beautiful tree swifts (Dendrochelidon comatus 
and D. longipfennis). | also got male and female of an 
aberrant cuckoo (Phenicophaés erythrognathus). The plu- 
mage in both sexes of this species is alike, but the irides of 
the male are pale blue, those of the female bright yellow. 
I obtained also a number of other species of birds. 
We returned to the steamer about 10 A.M., and started 
almost immediately back for Kwala Pahang, where we arrived 
at 5 P. M., and there Mr. RODGER left to return, | \Wewemen 
steamed south ez route for Singapore, where we arrived at 
9.20 A. M. on Tuesday. 
The coast-line between the Cheranting and Rompin Rivers 
is very fine, the hills coming in many cases to the water’s 
edge, and tier above tier rising away into the interior. In 
some cases the hills that we could see in the far distance must 
have been from eight to ten thousand feet high. On Pulau 
Tioman and in the Rumpin River mangrove was met with, 
but the other places visited seemed to be free imemy atau 
beach, or rather only that portion of it covered during the N.E. 
monsoon, was covered with pumice-stone. In many places, as 
at Cheranting and Rumpin, the pieces were often about six 
inches across.. 
At Tringganu, on the beach, His !’xcellency the Governor 
collected a number of the shells af an oyster. These are so 
delicate and translucent that at first I mistook them for the 
scales of a large fish. They are small, barely two inches across, 
but as pearly on the outer as on the innersurface. His Ex- 
cellency has kindly given me for the Museum the best pair he 
collected. 
It was rather remarkable that during the entire trip no land 
snake was met with; a few sea snakes were seen. . 
Wm. DAVISON, . 
Secretary, Raffies Library and Museum. 
Singapore, 30th August, 1889. 
