PROCKEDINGS 



OF THE 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Vol. II, pp. 203-246. August 20, 1900. 



MAMMALS COLLECTED BY DR. W. L. ABBOTT ON 

 ISLANDS IN THE NORTH CHINA SEA. 



By Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. 



CONTENTS : 



Introduction 203 



Systematic list of species 241 



Notes on the fauna of the islands visited 242 



INTRODUCTION. 



During the spring of 1899 Dr. W. L. Abbott fitted out a 

 schooner at Singapore for the special purpose of exploring the 

 less known coasts and islands of the East Indies. The results 

 of the first cruise, so far as concerns the mammals, are embodied 

 in the present paper, which is published here by permission of 

 the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The mammals, 

 though numbering about 200 specimens, form only a part of the 

 very extensive collections obtained, all of which have been 

 presented to the United States National Museum. 



Leaving Singapore on June 29, 1899, accompanied by Mr., 

 C. B. Kloss, Dr. Abbott spent about three months among the 

 islands of the North China Sea. Mammals were collected on 

 the following islands, the location of which is shown on the 

 accompanying map (fig. i) : Linga (July 7th to 25th), Ste. 

 Barbe (August ist and 2d), Tambelan group (August 13th to 

 15th), Anambas group (August 17th to September 28th), and 

 Tioman (September 30th to October 4th). 



So far as it is represented by this collection the mammal fauna 

 of the islands consists of local forms of the widely distributed and 

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