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 May, 1919 MALCOLM PLAYFAIR ANDERSON 117 labor, and Tsushima, Iki, Goto, and fin.ally this part of China have taken their share of my time. In all I have collected 668 specimens of mammals and 309 specimens of birds, a total of 977 specimens. Since leaving Mindanao I have met with uninterrupted success." During the whole time that he was in Min- danao he was ill, sometimes prostrated, with chills and fever; so that of the little he did there his notes contain little. In general his notebooks are kept with great care and, as he regarded himself not merely as a collector but as an explorer, contain much more than the ordinary field-notes of a naturalist. If it be remembered that most of these collections were made in lands set- tled from very ancient time, where wild life is scarce and where hunting and trapping are pursued under a variety of inhibitions and obstacles, his record will be perceived to represent more industry, energy, pluck, and persistence than would be imagined by one who had not read the notebooks. Even in times of enforced idleness from collecting and observing, as when travelling, waiting for boats or permits or for his baggage, he tried to spend his time to the best advantage in walking about with his eyes open, questioning the people, pIoto- graphing, etc. Here, for example, is the record of January 1, 1907, made at a little port on the Island of Tsu-shima, where the crew of the small craft on which he was oyaging, had landed to beguile twenty-four hours in drinking sake. After describing the outlook from a hill he had climbed with his Jap- anese hunter, he goes on: "From our hilltop we wandered on down a trail singing and whistling, till we met a man on horseback and another on foot. The horseman dismounted and bowed, then passed on. The man on foot paused and addressed us. He was a funny old fellow with a bald head. Orii answered, told him our busi- ness, 'and asked him about animals. His answers were not very clear, as he had had too much sake. However we gathered that one of his neighbors had recent- ly killed a wildcat, and the old man thought possibly it was still unskinned. Wc asked directions and were told to go to the next village and ask for his house (his name, he said, was 'Man of the Shining Head' and he was [tistinguished as the best drinker in his village). We found the owner of the cat (which was skinned). I bought the skin for two yen, and asked about the body. It had been given away. We went to the neighbor who had received it and found that he had eaten part of the cat and buried the head and vertebrae. To dig the 'thing up was the work of a moment, and we were in possession of scientific evidence of the presence of the wildcat on Tsu-shima." To give some idea of his method, I copy a few of his notes on birds, all taken from his diary of the two years, 1904-1906. His later notebooks, which 1 have not yet read, may contain observations of still greater interest. Here is a list of birds secured in Korea between August and December, 1905: Brown-eared bulbul, blue flycatcher, Siberian tit, white eye, Japanese tit, green-finch, Iyngipicus, red-bellied woodpecker, slender-billed nuthatch, pigmy uuthatch, nightingale (warbler), owl, Quelpart shrike, gray robin-like thrush, 'robin, wren, jay, magpie, small yellowish brown-breasted finch, brown-headed shrike, skylark, large blue-grey shrike, Korean sparrow, long-billed sparrow (bunting?), black-throated sparrow, crossbill, purple finch, rosy-tinted tit, marsh tit, redstart, dipper, water-ousel, bullfinch, pipit, Iyngipicus sp. The following were only observed: Crow, large hawk, small hawk, small kingfisher, white and black wagtail, pheasant, quail, swallow, creeper, large pigeon, Picus martius.