Vol. XIII, pp. 187-193 December 21. 1900 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



MAMMALS COLLECTED BY DR. W. L. ABBOTT 



• ON PULO LANKAWI AND THE ; 



BUTANG ISLANDS.* ' 



BY GERRIT S. MILLER. Jr. 



The first half of December, 1899 Dr. W. L. Abbott spent in 

 exploring Pulo Lankawi and the Butang Islands. Pulo Lan- 

 kawi, or as it stands on some maps, Langkawi, or Lancava, and 

 the Biitang or Buton Islands are situated near the west coast of 

 the Malay Peninsula at the northern extremity of the Straits of 

 Malacca, about 75 miles north of Penang. Lankawi is separated 

 from the mainland by ten miles or more of water, the Butangs 

 by a space about double as great. The distance from the 

 western end of Lankawi to the Butang group is about fifteen 

 miles in a northwesterly dii'ection, The collection of mam- 

 mals, numbering about eighty specimens, all of which have 

 been presented to the United States National Museum, repre- 

 sents thirteen species, of which all are closely related to those 

 of the adjacent mainland. 



*Published here by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution. 



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