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on which the house itself stood was terraced. The grounds 
■were maintained in excellent order by a gang of short- 
sentence convicts, on whom imprisonment did not appear 
to press very hardly. 
This park proved an excellent collecting-ground for birds, 
especially for Bulbuls, Honeysuckers, and Flowerpeckers, 
which seemed to concentrate on the isolated trees growing 
there ; so that they could be easily shot, and, what was more 
important, could be retrieved with much greater ease than 
in heavy jungle. Game, too, was abundant in the vicinity, 
and on one occasion a Kyang (Cervulus muntjac ) strolled 
across the lawn with a pack of convicts in hot pursuit. 
Hard by is one of the most famous waterfalls of the 
Peninsula, the Trang River falling over a broad shelf of rock 
for a perpendicular distance of about forty feet. The fall is 
not vertical, and the scene embowered in heavy jungle on 
both sides is one of extreme beauty. 
Chong is actually at the foot of the main range, and 
a walk of six or seven miles along the road, excellently 
engineered but now largely destroyed by heavy rains and 
landslips, leads to the summit of the pass, which cannot 
exceed four or five hundred feet, dividing the State of Trang 
from the East Coast State of Patelung. The road at the 
summit passes through a narrow defile, which is guarded by 
a heavy loopholed timber fence and gate. A long day’s 
journey brings the traveller to the Lower Patelung, and 
to the Inland Sea, but the route, which we have not as yet 
traversed, has been described by Annandale. 
During our stay at Chong we ascended a mountain in the 
vicinity probably about 3000 feet in height, and obtained 
an excellent view of the higher mountains of Lakon to the 
north, which are over 5000 feet and as yet entirely un¬ 
explored. The hill we visited was, however, very unproductive 
in birds and yielded only one of any interest, viz. Stachyris 
davisoni. 
After our departure from Chong our collectors visited 
several localities in the N.E. portion of the State towards 
Lakon, but for various reasons were unable to ascend any of 
