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KINA BALK: SECOND EXPEDITION. 
villages, built on a smooth grassy spot and containing about a dozen houses of various 
sizes. We left Kapar early and encamped in the forest high on the mountain side behind 
the village: as I do not intend remaining here long I did not bring much baggage. In the 
trees over the camp there are several shelters made by the Orang-Utans, which consist of 
platforms of boughs. In the afternoon, while the Kadyans were building the house, I shot 
a species of Thrush, Geociclilci aurata ; this was a new species. The forest here is virgin, 
being above the zone of Dusun cultivation. The absence of a thick undergrowth caused by 
the shade of the high forest trees makes the hillside easy to traverse. The Kapars do not 
seem to be rat-trappers like the Kiaus—in fact, I did not notice a trap in this forest. There 
is a fairly clear path over the mountain, which the Dusuns tell me leads to the village of 
Siap. The forest is dark and damp, many of the trees being as large as those in the coast 
forests. Rain in torrents half the day. 
14th.—Tungal brought me three specimens of a Whistling Thrush closely allied to one 
of the Himalayan species ; this was new and has been named Garrulax schistochlamys. 
Our camp is pitched in a miserable sunless spot, and to-day, to add to my miseries, it has 
poured with rain from 11 A.M. until dark. 
15th.—I am again beginning to suffer from fever, this damp forest camp being the 
chief cause. Heavy rain and thunderstorms half the day. 
16th.—Had a bad attack of fever to-day, so resolved to depart for Melangkap, leaving 
the three Kadyans here to collect until 1 have packed up for the return journey. 
17th, 18th.—Left with Buntar for Melangkap with part of my baggage. 
19th to 21st.—We are busy packing up the collections and shall leave as soon as 
possible for the coast. The Kadyans returned from Kapar with our last new bird, an 
interesting little Timeliine closely allied to a Himalayan species; this bird has been named 
Turdinulus exsul. The men also delighted me with a pair of a Bornean Pitta, P. schwaneri, 
which till within a few hours of my giving up bird-collecting in Borneo I had been unable 
to procure. This lovely bird is closely allied to a Javan species, P. cyanura, but differs chiefly 
from that species—already mentioned by me—in having a dark indigo-blue patch on the 
centre of the belly. 
During the time the Kadyans were living on the hillside above Melangkap, some 
Kapar Dusuns entered their dwelling and pulled the men’s clothes out of their “ sabuts ” or 
baskets ; whether they would have robbed them or not I am unable to say, but on seeing 
my men returning the Dusuns ran aw 7 ay. The Kadyans told some of the Melangkaps that 
these men intended to rob them, and this report soon travelled to the Kapar men 
themselves. This morning the house is empty, and I am busy with Buntar packing up my 
collections in the small private apartment, the door of which we barred. On looking up 
we observed a big Kapar Dusun looking over the door at us : he at once let us know his 
business ; he said he w T as one of the men who had turned the Kadyans’ clothes out of 
their sabuts, and that he had heard that they had called him a thief. So as compensation he 
demanded that we should pay him a fine of several lengths of cloth, or, he said, he would 
return to Kapar and kill the Ivadyan who w T as his accuser. As the Kadyans were still in the 
forest there, this might have been alarming with others than Dusuns. Buntar, however, began 
to bounce the Dusun, and threatened to burn down the village of Kapar if he dared do this, 
