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FASCICULI MALATENSES 
Patani States. Among these was the type of a new species of civet cat, 
Paradoxurus minor . We also obtained, chiefly from the same source, several 
interesting reptiles, including a new tortoise of considerable size, Cyclemys 
annandalii , and a new snake, Dtpsadomorphus pallidus. As heavy rain fell during 
the greater part of our stay at Kampong Jalor, we were able to do very little 
collecting ourselves, but we were fully occupied in preserving the specimens 
brought to us and in anthropological work. With the rains came numerous 
wading birds, which had hitherto been absent or scarce, including several species 
of heron and at least two of stork. Vultures of two species were very abundant, 
and specimens were obtained of both. The Siamese Commissioner had 
caused a house to be built for us outside the village, but it had been erected 
on an abandoned rice-field on which dead cattle and dogs had formerly been 
cast out, and the remains of these, and of the animals we had skinned, proved 
most attractive to the vultures, which sat on the ground in rows, often too 
fully gorged to fly, within sight of our verandah. 
As regards anthropology, we obtained a considerable series of anthropo- 
metrical data, but not so large a one as we desired, owing to a rumour, spread 
we know not how, that we were measuring people in order to enlist them 
against their will in the white men's army. A large collection of ethnographical 
specimens were made, and much information concerning native beliefs and 
customs obtained. The specimens included some very fine neoliths, which 
were preserved as charms against lightning and as hones for the artificial spurs 
which were formerly attached to the legs of fighting cocks but are now 
illegal. 
We stayed at Kampong Jalor in October and November, i^or, arriving 
from Biserat, and starting from the former village for our trip to the Rhaman 
border. Between Biserat and Jalor there is a road which is fairly good in 
dry weather, except that most of the planks in the bridges spanning the 
numerous runnels of water which traverse it have been stolen ; during the 
rains the road becomes mostly mud, though cattle and elephants are warned 
off it by means of elaborate signs, such as a model of the elephant hobbles 
used in the country, suspended across the track or from a pole set up at 
its side. 
Mabek . A small community of Malays in the interior of Jalor, situated 
near the point where the fauna and flora commence to take on a true jungle 
character, which is practically absent, except on Biikit Besar, northwards 
towards the sea. We noticed a very marked difference between the fauna of 
this place and that of the country round Biserat, especially as regards the 
dragon flies, which were more numerous here than at any other collecting 
