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description of its appearance and habits answered exactly to Pitta cyanoptera , 
which a Patani man later picked out from the whole collection in the Selangor 
State Museum as the burong lah, though this species is known at Jalor as burong 
f achat ; but they said that there were two kinds of burong lah , one a little larger 
than the other, which did not travel together. 
The insects in this locality are mostly small and inconspicuous, and there 
are few other invertebrates except marine forms. Among these we took, on 
the beach, an Opisthobranch mollusc so closely resembling a seed which 
commonly germinates in sea water that only a very close examination revealed 
its true nature. Indeed, one of us, some argument having arisen about these 
seeds, actually lifted the animal up under the impression that it was one of 
them. 
The people living on Cape Patani are all Malays, who appeared to differ 
considerably, especially as regards their narrow faces, from any others we met 
with on the East Coast. Unfortunately, they were unwilling to be measured, 
and we only secured a very small series of physical data ; their hair was 
straight. The nature of the soil makes agriculture impossible for them, but 
their cattle are valuable for export overland to Perak. The sheep are chiefly 
kept to be sacrificed at the shrine of ‘ Toh Panjang,’ a Mahommedan saint, 
whose legend has been told by Mr. W. W. Skeat in his Fables and Folk-tales 
from an Eastern Forest. 
There are several little fishing villages on the sand-spit, of which Kampong 
Datoh, the seat of the shrine, and Kampong TanjongBudi are the most important. 
We stayed at the latter for some days, being literally driven to it by the mos- 
quitoes, which rendered life a misery in the camp we had established at 
the edge of the woods on the other side of the Cape. It is difficult, without 
seeming exaggeration, to give any idea of their numbers, and the only con- 
solations we had regarding them were that their presence was to some extent 
compensated for by the absence of another plague, namely land leeches, and that 
they included few or no specimens of the malaria-bearing genus Anopheles , 
which appears to have a very local distribution in the Malay Peninsula. 
Kedah 
Our only personal knowledge of this state was obtained during a 
hurried three days’ journey through it from Senggora to Alor Stall, where 
we stayed one night. We were able, however, to verify one important 
geographical fact bearing on the question of the high level fauna of the 
Peninsula, which differs so completely, at any rate as far as the birds are 
concerned, from the fauna of the plains. There is a very distinct break in 
