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NOTE xxvm. 



THE DOG OF THE TENGGER 



Dr. F. A. JENTINK. 



January 1897. 



(Plates 4 and 5). 



In the journal entitled "Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor 

 Nederlandsch Indië ", there has been published in 1896, 

 T. 55, by Dr. Kohlbrugge a very interesting paper on the 

 Mammals of the Tengger. This mountain is to be found 

 in East Java , Residence Pasoeroean , to the north of the 

 Semeroe or Semiroe, the highest mountain of Java. On the 

 Tengger to the height of 7500 feet potatoes and vegetables , 

 coflee and maize are growing. 



As Dr. Kohlbrugge's paper has been published in the 

 dutch language 1 translate here a part of it, dealing with 

 a wild dog — at present after Dr. Kohlbrugge extinct — , 

 described by him as a distinct variety under the title 

 Canis familiaris var. tenggerana. 



Dr. Kohlbrugge almost narrates as follows : "it is a well 

 known fact that the tame house-dogs of our Malayan brethern 

 are extremely ugly, that they devore the most disgusting 

 food and therefore are despised by the Europeans, who 

 call them "kampong-gladakkers" : since times immemorial 

 european dogs have been imported, without success however 

 as they soon fell ill and die, or they do not or rarely 

 breed, especially not if long-haired. Very evident therefore 

 was, that after it generally had been known that on the 



Notes from the Leyden. IVluseum , Vol. X.VIII. 



