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were bananas & bamboo [[strikethrough]] trees [[/strikethrough]].
Several of the large purple thrushes were seen in bushes lining the creeks & on the boulders were perched the white capped rufous water wagtails.  Shot several of the 5 colored sunbirds also a large parrot green honey creeper & a vermillion shrike.  On the old corn fields a growth of Pteris ferns was everywhere present.  On many of the trees the large fronded primately leaved climber lily was seen.  In the afternoon we climbed up again out of the valley we were following & over a pass into another which led down to the Meng-ting plain.  Near the pass I shot a species of very small chipmunk having a clear buffy belly, striped back & the usual white tip to the ears.  Later I saw two others in the same tree, a sort of live oak.  Farther on at sunn-set I shot another five [[symbol: male]] from a Cedro-like tall tropical tree.  
Few species of flycatchers were