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and ground-doves. It consists of a section of a large species 

 of bamboo, with a sound-hole bored in it and with one end open, 

 the other closed by the septum ; to this section of bamboo a 

 long bamboo stem, with the septa broken through so that a long 

 tube is formed, is obliquely attached so that a current of air 

 directed down the tube impinges against the edge of the sound- 

 hole bored in the bamboo section. The hunter conceals him- 

 elf amongst herbage or in a leafy shelter and scatters some 

 grain around, and then blows his call; if any bird comes within 

 reach it is captured by a noose at the end of a long stick, the 

 noose being generally spread round the mouth of the bird-call ; 

 sometimes the birds are limed. The bird-call is, in fact, a wind- 

 instrument with a directive duct (the bamboo tube) attached to 

 it and falls into Class IV in the classification given above. Ling- 

 Roth (1. c. vol. p. 44) gives a good figure of a Murut bird-call 

 and quotes Burbidge's account of its use. 



2. Sea-Dyak— Bumbun. (Plate VIII fig. 10 ) 



a. Bamboo section of 6 cm. diameter and 51 cm. in length 

 with one end closed by the natural septum the wall not cut flush 

 with this but projecting considerably proximad of it, the other 

 end open and very obliquely truncate so that a projecting spout 

 is produced. The sound hole is bored at a distance of 10*5 cm. 

 from the septum on the distal side. The portion of the bamboo 

 projecting proximad of the septum is vertically transfixed by a 

 wooden upright with a large circular hole in it. The bamboo 

 tube is 233-5 cm. long ; it passes through the hole in the wood- 

 en upright and is lashed to the bamboo section by rattan ; 

 its distal end is obliquely truncate and fits the curvature of the 

 bamboo section leaving only a narrow passage through which 

 the current of air passes to impinge against the edge of 

 the sound-hole; the joint is made secure by a luting of 

 dammar. 



Catalogue No. 686. Ven. Archdeacon J. Perham [P.] 



b. A very similar specimen, but the spout-like projection of 

 the bamboo section much more pronounced. A long bamboo 

 rod to which a noose should be attached is tied to the bamboo 



E. A. Soc. No. 40, 1904 



