A Scientific Expedition to Temengoh, | 
Upper Perak. 
IBye JBL IN, IRIEDIONB A) WR AA) TERS. Anish, 
In the month of July 1909, an expedition to investigate 
the fauna and flora of Temengoh in Upper Perak, a district 
unknown botanically and zoologically, left Kuala Kangsar on 
the 4th of the month. The party consisted of Mr. H. C. Robin- 
son, C. B. Kloss and myself, with a number of Dyak collectors, 
the plant collector Amat, and servants. The heavy baggage 
and natives started on ahead on the previous evening. TIravel- 
ling in gharries we arrived at the pretty village of Lenggong at 
midday. On the way we passed through a village where a 
Malay wedding was about to be celebrated, and found some stir 
had been caused by asmall boy having being bitten on the arm 
below the shoulder by the poisonous snake Doliophis bivirgatus. 
The boy was sick and crying, but apparently more from fright 
than from injury caused by the reptile, as he showed no signs 
of the effects of snake poison, although it was some time after 
the animal had bitten him; we could but administer some 
whisky as all drugs suitable were in the baggage carts, which 
had gone on ahead. This handsome snake has certainly the 
reputation of being deadly but though the mark of the bite was 
visible, the boy did not seem to be in any danger of life. A 
little further on a herd of wild pigs was seen in the ricefields 
by the road. After arriving at Lenggong, 32 miles, we strolled 
to some limestone cliffs a mile or two further on and I collect- 
ed a few plants of interest. Colocasia gigantea was common. 
The pretty azure blue Chirita caliginosa was nearly out of 
flower. Plectranthus Kunstlert too was abundant. We had 
not time for much collecting bere, then, but on the return 
journey the plant collector in a few hours made a grand haul 
of new and rare plants. The beautiful Chestnut swallow 
Hirundo badia was observed dashing about near the cliffs in 
Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc., No. 57, 1910. 
