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direction of Mr. Oldfield Thomas, the eminent mammalogist, his principal at- 
_ tention as a collector could not be centered upon birds; yet even so, scarcely a 
day passed in the field when he failed to make some interesting observation. 
The following passage from his diary, written when he had already been in the 
Orient something less than three years, may indicate roughly the relative pro- 
portion of birds to mammals in the collections made by him, which are now to 
be found at the South Kensington Zoological Museum. 
_At the Bamboo Temple, near Che-Foo, Shantung Province, China, under 
date of April 5, 1907, he writes: 
Fig. 25. MALCOLM PLAYFAIR ANDERSON, 
‘This is the last day of my 28th year. What have I done since my last 
birthday? I have climbed Mt. Apo and made what collection I could there. I 
have visited Nikko. I have visited Saghalien and made the first real collection 
of mammals that has ever been taken from that island. I have worked in Hok- © 
kaido, adding much to my former work. Korea has been the scene of some — 
