extraordinary interest to me on account of its remarkable resemblance to that of Sikkim, There were large areas of fine bamboo, Go or 80 feet high, Phyllostachys bambusoides, from which a very fair coarse paper is being made at a very cheap rate. At 4,000 feet the forest was sub-tropical with largo cordate-leaved Aroids climbing the trees as in Sikkim. Large plants of the fern Asplenium nidus, and a fine tree-fern 20 or 30 feet high, Bananas and scitaminous plants, were abundant, but the ferns were not so varied as in Sikkim. Ascending gradually to 4,500 feet, we reached a place called Funkiko, where the road came to an end and the Japanese engineers’ construction camp was situated. In one of their houses we passed the night in a very pleasant temperature of about 60°, with no chill in the morning.
Wc started next morning about seven-thirty, and walked some miles through the forest, collecting birds as I went in advance of our coolies. Every one of the birds that I shot belonged to a genus that I knew well in Sikkim. A pair of large martins, shot on the road, were the same or almost the same as the common Himalayan martin, M. flavigularis. In four hours we reached Jujiro on a saddle 5,300 feet high, whence we could see ML Morrison in the distance covered with snow down to about 11,000 feet. Near here begins the territory inhabited by the aborigines, one of whose villages we saw on a bare grassy slope below us, the forest burnt oil for some way round the huts. As we ascended, the forest became denser and more largely composed of evergreen trees, among which Camphor and Machilus Thunbergi (known as Japanese Mahogany) were abundant. On northern slopes at 6,000 feet I saw a very fine species of alder attaining 100 or 120 feet by 8 or 10 feet. J collected seeds from it, but the plants raised from these seeds were killed by our English winter. There were many small orchids on the trees, and some terrestrial ones, but the only one worth bringing home was a fine white-flowered Calanthe veratrifolia. A Dendrobium out of flower, but afterwards identified as D. flaviflorum of Hayata, is abundant here, and we saw large bundles of the dried stems being carried down, as it is considered by the Chinese to have medicinal value. Another orchid, with a small but pretty cluster of flowers, was so similar to one which I collected in Sikkim at similar elevations that I cannot separate them. As we ap¬ proached Arisan, the trees became larger and here we found several species of oak and chestnut (Castanopsis) just as one would at 6,000 or 7,000 feet in Sikkim. Aralias of several species were also abundant, and, to complete the resemblance to my old and well-known haunts, a heavy thunderstorm came on, which obliged us to hurry over the last three miles, where the wonderful Cypress trees begin to predominate in the forest. The future station of Arisan will be at about 7,000 feet, but then consisted of a number of shanties inhabited by the workmen building the railway, and some better houses for the foresters and engineers, who kindly placed two rooms at our disposal.
The next morning I went out early in hopes of finding some rare birds, as there are a good many species peculiar to these mountains, and found nowhere else, The first I shot was one called Liocichla Steerii, one of the very few genera commonly found in Formosa, which has no allies
