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tement of Doctor Högbom, who observed several tracks in 

 the jungles sourrounding the towns of Chieng Kong, Chieng 

 Sen and Muang Fång. 



The horns and the greatest part of the intestine are 

 highly valued by the Chinese and Laos for medicine, so 

 that these parts are said by the natives to be worth their 

 own weight in gold. 



When staying at Bangkok I was shown a very small 

 horn of this species. This horn was possessed by a German 

 engineer who in his turn had got it from a Shan hunter, 

 but the exact locality where the animal had been shot, was 

 impossible to make out. 



During my stay at Sakerat in Eastern Siarn I was told 

 by the Chief of the village that a very large and fierce 

 Rhino had been shot some years ago quite close to the 

 village, after first having killed two of the hunters. 



Two species are said to inhabit Siarn. The most com- 

 mon form, however, seems to be the smaller One-horned 

 Rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus Cuv.) the distributional area of 

 which exstends from India down to the Malayan Islands. 



Rhinoceros sumatrensis Cuv. on the contrary is only 

 confined to the Burmese countries, the Malay Peninsula and 

 some of the Great Malayan Islands. 



The Laos name for a Rhinoceros is »Rat». 



37. Sus sp. — Numbers of foot-prints of wild pigs 

 were seen on different localities during my travels in Siarn, 

 but though I made several efforts to get a specimen I was al- 

 ways unlucky. The wild pigs are very. shy and are seldom 

 seen or shot either by Europeans or natives. Therefore it 

 is impossible for me to state which species inhabits Siarn, 

 but Flower (P. Z. S. 1900 p. 375) gives ^5 cristalus W aqx . 

 to inhabit Siarn as well as India, Ceylon, Burma and the 

 Malay Peninsula. 



38. Tragulus kanchil affinis Gray. — Gray: Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1861 p. 138. — Several times during my travels in the 

 interiör of Siam, I observed fresh tracks of mouse-deer, but 

 I never was lucky enough either to shoot a specimen, or to 

 see it in its real wild haunts. When I went down by rail 

 to Bangkok from Northern Siam there was on the train a 



