Vol. 45 Parts I and II 



Smithsonian 

 Miscellaneous Collections 



Quarterly Issue July-September, 1903 



SEVENTY NEW MALAYAN MAMMALS 

 By GERRIT S. MILLER, JR. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott has presented to the United States National 

 Museum four large collections of Malayan mammals of which it 

 has been found impracticable to publish detailed accounts. The 

 first was made on the islands of the Mergui Archipelago, off the 

 west coast of Tenasserim, during the winter of 1900-01 ; it con- 

 tains about four hundred specimens, and is noteworthy for its rich- 

 ness in slightly differentiated insular forms of rats and squirrels. 

 The second collection, of about two hundred and seventy speci- 

 mens, forms part of the results of explorations among the islands 

 of the South China Sea not previously visited,^ and on the neighbor- 

 ing east coast of Johore. Peculiar insular species of porcupine and 

 flying lemur, both from Pulo Aor, may be regarded as the most 

 interesting of the new mammals found during this expedition. The 

 third was obtained in the Rhio Archipelago, off the southern ex- 

 tremity of the Malay Peninsula, in August and • September, 1902. 

 and numbers about one hundred and seventy-five specimens. Two 

 of the new mammals which it includes, a monkey and a treeshrew, 

 show an unexpected likeness to species occurring in the Anamba and 

 Natuna Islands. The last and most valuable of the four collec- 

 tions was made with the assistance of Mr. C. B. Kloss during the 

 winter of 1902-03 on the Pagi Islands, the Batu Islands, and 

 Pulo Nias, islands of the chain lying parallel to the west coast of 

 Sumatra.^ It contains about three hundred specimens, among 



'^ For an account of the mammals obtained during Dr. Abbott's first and 

 second cruise in the South China Sea, see Miller, Proc. Washington Acad. 

 Sci., II, pp. 203-246, August 20, 1900, and iii, pp. 111-138, March 26, 1901. 



" For an account of the mammals obtained by Dr. Abbott on the more 

 northerly islands of this archipelago, see Miller, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 XXVI, pp. 437-484, February 3, 1902. 



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