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it will pick one and descend to have it opened hv its master. A light string is 

 attached to the animal before it is sent up, and it takes its own time in the descent, 

 investigating every cranny, seizing the geckoes, spiders, etc., that lurk therein, and 

 halting to eat them before it goes on. When it reaches the crown of leaves, if it is 

 idle, the Malay below has only to shout " Putar" to it, and it sets to work again. — 

 A. E.] 



The above story was first related I)y Sir S. Raffles, and afterwards by Mr. Carl 

 Bock. Hartert was told the same in Deli, N.E. Sumatra, but only saw these 

 monkeys at work in the ]Malay Peninsula. In Deli, Lankat, and Serdang, in Sumatra, 

 the pig-tailed monkey was found by him commonly wild, and often kept in 

 captivity by the planters. In a wild state they often used to fight with the dogs. 

 They kept more to the ground than any other monkeys in Sumatra, the orang-outan 

 perhaps excepted. In captivity they were found to be good-natured and docile, but 

 sometimes also very treacherous and bad-tempered, especially old mules. 



5. Tarsius spectrum ([>inn.). 



[At Bunguran I coidd hear nothing of the existence of this animal ; but the 

 Malays at Sirhassen described it to me unmistakably under the name of " Imbing.'" — 

 A. K] 



(). Nycticebus tardigi'adus (Liun.). 



Sent from Bunguran only. 



[The natives on Sirhassen did not appear to know this animal. At Bunguran it is 

 probably not rare, though not often ca])tured. Native name " Kuk;ing." — A. E.] 



7. Pteropus vampyrus (T,.). 

 PL edvMs Geoif., Dobs, et ancl. <(l.* 



Several from Bunguran, where they were found very common in the cocoamit 

 plantation.s, and were seen continually flying about even at midday, their great wings 

 showing red brown against the sun. 



Distributed over the jNIalay Peninsula and the Malayan .'\rchipelago. 



8. Pteropus hypomelanus Temm. 

 Four from Sirhassen. 



n. Cynopterus inarginatus Geoff. 



Four skins from Sirhassen, Se[jtenibi-r 2i)th. 



One skin from Bunguran, October I'.ith, and several in spirits. I'roni the 

 Himalayas to the ]\lalay Peninsula and Islands. 



[Found at Sirhassen among the crowns of the cocoanut palms in large parties. 

 The colour varied from snufi-brown to mouse-brown, the males with ferruginous upper 

 breasts, the young entirely dark mouse-brown. Young ones, evidently several weeks 

 old, were found on September 2(lth, while some of the fenialfs had not yet brought 

 forth, though tlie wet .season was beginning. — A. E.] 



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