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always notice, turns up his nose and makes grimaces when discussing any animal that he 
cannot eat. 
7th.—To-day one of the Kadyans brought in three curious birds; they have been 
placed by Dr. Sharpe in a new genus, Clilamydoclicera (sp. jefferyi). The plumage of the 
male is light pearly grey, with a broad black band on the upper part of the breast; throat 
and forehead ochreous yellow; wings black. The female is marked the same, but the 
general colouring is brownish ochre. This genus is an interesting addition to the family of 
Carpophagidce. 
8th.—The only event of the day has been the collecting for the first time in Borneo of 
a Shrike-Tit, Pterutliius ceralatus. 
9th, 10th.—The Panataran has been in high flood all day, and is the colour of coffee. 
Our food is getting short, which is rather alarming, as the Dusuns and Billio will find 
great difficulty in reaching us. 
11th.—River still in high flood; rice stock getting very low. To-morrow I have 
resolved if possible to send three of the Kadyans back to Melangkap. Three Dusuns came 
in before dark; they want to go to the head of the stream to visit a cave for birds’ nests, 
but as the river is too high they cannot go any further. I have to-day a very interesting 
bird, Tarsiger hodgsoni, hitherto known only from the Himalayas. 
12th.—Sent off three Kadyans with a Dusun and a load of birds’ skins to Melangkap. 
The river fell a foot in the night, but during the day it rained heavily and drizzled during 
the intervals, so we were unable to leave the camp, the two Dusuns spending the day 
with us. There are several small caves in the neighbourhood of our camp, formed, not by 
the agency of water, but by huge rocks which have been displaced and fallen from the 
slopes above, thus forming caverns. I have read several accounts of the caves found on 
Kina Balu, but in the true sense of the word there are none, those mentioned being merely 
huge rocks that have become displaced and remain tilted in such a position as to form a 
shelter. The well-known cave near the summit is merely a collection of rocks that have 
tumbled together, forming a good-sized apartment. The caves in this neighbourhood are 
frequented by dozens of small black Swiftlets, Collocalia linchi. Though I see numbers of 
Cypselus infumatus flying about in the evening, they do not nest in these holes. 
loth.—The Dusun porters arrived soon after mid-day; the river, though still 
unpleasantly high, will, they think, allow of our return to-morrow, as we are to 
follow its course for a short distance only, and then strike the path which they have 
cut for us. 
14tli.—We left the camp at 7 A.M., after having risen early and packed up the 
waterproof roofing, cooking-utensils, &c., &c.; it always takes quite an hour packing up the 
camp necessaries that you are unable to put qp the night before. When we succeeded in 
reaching the path, after many plunges into the cold waters of the Panataran, we found this 
much-talked-of path was hardly worthy of the name: most native paths over these hills are 
little better than those which the wild pigs make for themselves. Where the bamboo-growth 
is thick, the Dusuns burrow a tunnel through it, which is most trying to the traveller, who 
has to walk doubled up, the tough bamboo twining round his legs and neck. This path led 
up and down the spurs, and it was not until nearly 3 o’clock that we reached Melangkap, 
