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around is almost untouched jungle. On Gunong Semangko, to the north of 
the Pass, an alluvial tin mine has recently been opened, with its main workings 
situated at a height of over four thousand feet. The path from the trunk 
road to this mine leads through deep jungle and afforded an admirable 
collecting ground. Among other vertebrates, a new species of lizard ( Lygosoma 
miodactylum) was collected, as well as other forms recently described from the 
Larut Hills in central Perak, while in birds, specimens of Cutia cervinicrissa 
and Melanocichla peninsulae , hitherto only known from the types collected by 
Mr. Wray in 1887, were secured. Some thirty or forty species of moths 
were captured at light in the rest-house, and of these some ten or a dozen have 
been described as new to science by Colonel Swinhoe . 1 
Labuansara. A small jungle clearing some eight miles from Kuala 
Lumpur, inhabited by a tribe of ‘ Orang Bukit,’ a people of mixed Sakai 
stock. We visited them together on two occasions in June, 1902, and obtained a 
series of the more important physical measurements, as well as a small ethno- 
graphical collection. On our way to Labuansara we incidentally captured a 
specimen of the rare butterfly, Charaxes durnfordi , Dist., being the third known 
specimen of the typical form of the species. 
HERBERT C. ROBINSON 
Central Perak 
My personal knowledge of this part of the state is slight, being confined 
to a visit to the town of Kuala Kangsar and a drive thence to Upper Perak. 
There appears to be a considerable amount of cultivated land in the districts 
of Kuala Kangsar and Krian, and not much mining, so that the population 
has a larger element of indigenous Malay blood than in Batang Padang. 
Much of the country, however, especially towards the main range, has never 
been cleared, still supporting the jungle tribes, who, in this region, from what 
we could hear, are very largely of a mixed Semang stock. 
Kuala Kangsar. An important Malay centre in Perak, being the resi- 
dence of the Malay sultan. The town, which is on the railway, is small, but 
well laid out. The Malays here take their share in petty commerce, having 
many shops of their own, though even in Kuala Kangsar the majority of the 
larger stores are in the hands of Chinamen or Bengalis. From what I saw, I 
am certain that even the Malay of this district is not a homogeneous type, 
having probably absorbed a deal of Arab or bastard Arab blood. 
I spent four days in Kuala Kangsar in March, 1902, and obtained a 
series of photographs of native-born Malays. 
NELSON ANN AND ALE 
Fascic. Malay. — Zoology , Vol. I. 
