COLLECTING EXPEDITION TO BATANG PADANG. 161! 
of Composite. It was quite a surprise to us to find these 
temperate forms of plants in a valley at quite a low elevation 
when the mountain tops had been found to be covered with 
distinctly tropical vegetation. The birds I saw here were all 
hill forms, but I saw nothing that I had not previously met with, 
either on the Larut Hills or on Batu Puteh; though it is pro- 
bable that a stay of a month or two would be rewarded by 
many new species. 
This valley and those adjoining it contain some of the 
finest planting land which I[ suppose is to be found anywhere 
on the mountains of the Peninsula, particularly when it is 
remembered that when the railway is constructed to Tapa 
and the cart-road from there up the valley of the Batang 
Padang it will be within a day’s journey of a fine port. Such 
combined advantages of elevation, exposure, easy transport 
and good soil, are, I believe, not to be met with either in Cey- 
lon or in the hill districts of India. 
Mr. CAMERON'S original description of this hill country is 
fairly accurate if the Malay word ‘‘pamor,” is translated cor- 
rectly as “valley” instead of “plateau” land. The lofty 
mountains range closing in the hill country to the East that is 
montioned by him and estimated to be over 8,000 feet high is 
Gunong Brumbun, and another large hill mass to the East of 
it. To the North it is closed in by the Yang Yop range. 
Two large tributaries having their source on Yang Yop itself 
and one of them seems to be the largest of the many streams 
which, flowing down from the North, West and South, even- 
tually form the Pahang River. 
On the 21st we followed the elephant track up the valley, 
but after going some way lost it amongst some half-grown up 
Sakai ladangs. We then sometimes cut through the jungle 
and at others followed any Sakai tracks which went in the 
direction we wished to take. At about one o’clock we came 
to a place where the river divided, and we followed up the 
northern branch to near its source and on the top of a hill 
came on a Sakai house and decided to put up in it for the 
night. 
~The owners fled at our approach, so we sent some of our 
Sakais after them, and about an hour or so afterwards three 
