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time we have not the least reliable evidence of the existence 

 of Orangs in Borneo more than 4 feet 2 inches high." This 

 specimen, however, was distinctly bigger than this. 



The method said to have been adopted by the natives in 

 catching this huge animal was ingenious. They pounded 

 up a quantity of chillies into a paste, of which they made 

 pellets. These pellets they blew by means of their sumpitans 

 into the eyes of the unfortunate Mias, or Orang Utan, who 

 rubbed its eyes to try and ease the pain, and thus made them 

 worse and soon became quite blinded for the time being, and 

 was of course in frightful agony. The natives then proceeded 

 to cut down the tree in which the wretched beast was, and 

 when it was on the ground, not knowing which way to turn 

 from its tormentors, they seized it by the neck by means of two 

 long poles fastened together like a gigantic pair of scissors, 

 and thus placed it in the cage prepared for it, which was then 

 firmly closed. 



H. J. K. 



NOTE ON THE NEST AND EGGS OF 

 NYCTIORNIS AMICTA. 



On the 22nd August, 1891, when walking along a jungle 

 track close to the limestone cave at Kota Glanggi (near 

 Pulau Tawar, Pahangj a Malay who was just a short distance 

 in front of me collecting plants for Mr. Ridley, called my 

 attention to a hole in the ground, which he said was a 

 " Sarang Burong" or bird's nest, and he said he was sure 

 there were eggs in it, as he had seen a green bird about the 

 size of a ground dove ( Chalcophaps indica ) come out of it. 

 The hole was close to the path and in the side of a slight 

 mound. The mouth was just large enough for me to get my 

 hand into, and oval in shape. I could not reach the end of the 

 tunnel, so I made the Malay cut away the ground, following 

 the tunnel, and when he had got about 30 inches from the 

 mouth he took out two white almost globular eggs. There 



