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A number of birds belonging to the ordinary Malayan lowland fauna were 
obtained, among them a young individual of the rare Baza sumatrensis , which 
was brought to us by a Sakai, but nothing else of note. Among the insects 
the most striking point was the great abundance ot beetles belonging to the 
family Languridae , which we only met with elsewhere sporadically. 
We stayed at Gedong from January 6th to 13th, 1902. 
Jeram Kawan . A small hill-rice clearing four or five hours up stream 
from Sungkei, at the limit of navigation for canoes. The place is sur¬ 
rounded by high jungle, and some thermal springs close by are much 
frequented by big game, including guur, sambhur, rhinoceros, pig, and tapir. 
A good many species of animals not elsewhere collected were secured here, 
among the vertebrates being specimens of the recently described bat, Embalknura 
peninsularis t Miller, and skins of He Horn is personam and Phodilus badius . 
The crocodile Tomistoma scblegelii was also noticed on a log on the river. 
Several camps of the Mai Dardt existed at no great distance from Jeram Kawan, 
and the members of one party who visited us were measured. 
We stayed at Jeram Kawan from February 12th to 16th, 1902. 
Jor. A public works bungalow on the banks of the Jor river at its point 
of junction with the Batang Padang, about twenty miles from Tapah, and about 
two thousand feet above the level of the sea. We stayed at Jor for two or 
three nights in January, 1902, on our way to and from Telom, and collected 
a few species of insects. Jor seems to be about the superior limit of the low¬ 
land fauna in the Batang Padang valley, and we noticed that Ornithoptera 
brookeana , still common in the remoter parts of Batang Padang, though almost 
extinct in the rest of Perak, was not found beyond this point. Dragon flies 
were very numerous at Jor, 1 but we did not obtain specimens. A species of the 
Rhopaloceran genus Leptocircus , always local in the Peninsula, is here abundant. 
Between Jor and Tapah we captured two specimens of a tortoise allied to T. emys y 
which has been described by Mr. Boulenger as Testudo pseudemys , 
In a restricted belt below Jor the hillsides are covered with clumps of 
a giant bamboo, which reach an enormous height and girth, producing beast¬ 
like sounds as they swing together in the wind, and providing one of 
the most magnificent manifestations of vegetable growth to be found anywhere 
in the tropics. 
Siingkei, A large Malay village fifteen or sixteen miles from Tapah, on the 
river of the same name. Being situated in a district largely agricultural, the place 
has only a small Chinese population, and the Malays are probably of a rather 
less mixed type than at any other place in the Batang Padang district which 
j. Sec footnote on p. 193, Fascie, Ahtlaj, — Zwhgy y Vol. I. 
