rain. The rain continued during the morning soft + misty. The road lay thr[illegible] all the day & skirted the mountain side high above the valley. The vegetati was dense + consisted of tropical trees, most of them unknown to me. I saw tree ferns of average height, a Raphia like palm Acacias, figs & an Alder. This point is therefore limit of both tree ferns + palms Doubtless. Two troops of monkeys were seen in trees near the roadside. One troop consisted of 8-10 Semnopithy + another of 10-12 Macaques, the brown species taken on the Wauntying Rive[r]. On the Perdy fields yesterday + day before the cattle heron in bon headed nuptial plumage has been common. Curremants to a large brownish duck have been seen through. One of the common sights at Teygul or rather the Taiping River is the Black drongo perched on the back of buffaloes similarly to the native birds. At noon we stopped for tiffin at a iron bridgeed