KINA BALU: SECOND EXPEDITION. 
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Cissa jefferyi. My next victim was a small Flycatcher, obtained for the first time in Borneo, 
but a bird whose acquaintance I had already made in the highlands of Java, Cryptolopha 
trivirgata. 
After the usual mid-day downpour I took another stroll, and in the open path near the 
edge of a precipice I secured a specimen of a new genus of Bulbul; this bird has been 
named Oreoctistes leucops, and is somewhat allied to a Ceylonese form of the group. 
Nyhan and Tungal have brought in two specimens of the new Barbet and the small Fantail 
Flycatcher (Leucocerca albicollis). Our accommodation is of course miserable; besides 
just room enough to lie down in, I have no shelter except the low, thatched Dusun hovel. 
The nights are cold, and the mist drives continually over this ridge; luckily, I brought my 
mosquito-net, which helps me to keep fairly dry and warm. No traveller should ever be 
without this most necessary article in the tropics, as it is most useful where mosquitoes do 
not exist, keeping off the damp vapours at night; at this camp my net used to remain 
slung all day, protecting my bedding from the driving mists. Badly off as I am, the 
Kadyans are worse, though I have provided them with suits of old winter tweeds and warm 
underclothing, which they wear at nights ; but for these clothes they certainly would have 
succumbed to the cold, as they are men that soon give in under hardships or illness. The 
Patersonia-xooied shelter under which the Kadyans sleep is very uncomfortable, the roof 
at the centre being only four feet from the ground; here, however, we sit round a 
smoky fire during the greater part of the day, the continual rain preventing us getting 
about much. Over the fire Buntar has slung some racks for drying wood, clothes, and our 
precious bird-skins. Under this miserable shelter dozens of most valuable birds were 
skinned, and are now to be found in most of the museums in Europe. This camp, though 
over 2000 feet higher than the one below, is much more preferable, as we do sometimes 
get the early morning sunlight. Owing to the tameness of the birds we have reloaded most 
of our cartridges with half charges, in this way obtaining most perfect specimens; for 
easy as it is to kill a bird, it is difficult to collect good cabinet-specimens. Tungal always 
shot good birds, being a greater rambler than the others, but his fault was giving them too 
much lead: of this habit I never succeeded in breaking him; when told of it he would get 
sulky, and say he would not shoot at all. 
2nd.—Nyhan brought in another specimen of Cryptolopha montis, a bird obtained for 
the first time last year on the Panataran ; this, however, is its home, as it was fairly 
common. Close to the camp I came across a little brown bird, puffed out and evidently 
enjoying the morning’s sun, sitting with half-closed eyes ; every now and then it uttered a 
few musical notes. I approached it quite close, but it did not move. When I secured it 
I found that it closely resembled a small bird I had collected in Tosari, Java. The Kina- 
Balu bird is a new species, and has been named Cettia oreophila. Tungal brought in an 
enormous leech; when it reared itself up it was quite a foot long and of a pale cream- 
colour. He found this horrible creature in the pathway close to the camp; it is now in the 
Paris Museum, but 1 have been unable to obtain its name. 
Kespecting the country round about us, I may now say a few words. Our position is 
now nearly directly behind the main buttress, of which I have given a sketch as seen from 
Melangkap (facing p. 120). The accompanying sketch is a view of the mountain as seen 
