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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Family SIMIID.E. 



HYLOBATES AGILIS F. Cuvier. 



1821. Hylohates agiUs F. Ccvier, Hist. Nat. <les Mammiferes, III, Pts. .32 and 83^ 

 September, 1821; Sumatra. 



1902. Hylohates hoolock Miller, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1902, p. 159,ij 

 .Time 11, 1902. I 



Three .specimens from Tapanuli Bay, Sumatra. For measurementsS 

 see table, page 478. This animal is the same as that from the Indraj 

 giri River, eastern Simiatra, which I recently recorded as Ilylohatei. 

 JuM,Jocl\ It is undoubtedly the IT. agUis of F. Cuvier, some of thj 

 light-colored specimens almost exactly matching the figure in tW. 

 original account of the species. 



SYMPHALANGUS SYNDACTYLUS (Raffles). 



1822. S'mim si/ndacti/la Raffless, Tran.^. Linn. Soc. London, XIII, p. 241; Ben 

 coolen, Sumatra. 



Four adults were taken at Tapanuli Bay, where the animal i; 

 common. 



Meamrements of Htjlohafcs and Symplialangusfrom Tapanuli Bay. 



NOTES ON THE FAUNA OF THE LOCALITIES VISITED. 



Lists of the mammals observed at the different collecting station 

 follow, together with the collector s field notes. 



LoH SiDOH Bay, Suiviatra (November 5 to 8, 1901). 



Sciurus albescens. — Common in jungles and cocoanut plantations. 

 Mus lingensis.— Trapped on a low, jungle-covered hill east of the ba^ 

 Tupaia ferruginea Raffles. — Found in dense jungle by the seashore. 

 Presbytes maurus. — Shot in dense jungle by the seashore. 

 ''Saw tracks of tiger, Cervus equlnus, pig, kijang, etc., but did nc 

 secure an}'^ specimens." 



SiMALUR Island (November 16, 1901, to January 2, 1902). 



Sus vittatus. — Pigs are very common. One meets with their track 

 and "diggings" everywhere; but except where sago is being mad 



