WHAT ABOUT THE JAVAN BEAR? 109 



NOTE XIX. 

 WHAT ABOUT THE JAYAN BEAR? 



BY 



Dr. P. A. JENTINK. 



June 1898. 



The other day I read in a dutch popular periodical a 

 paper dealing with the different species of Bears aud their 

 geographical distribution. To my great surprise the Ma- 

 layan Bear was uaentioned from Java : the locality Java 

 being quite new to me I wrote to the author of that paper 

 and asked him some informations about the matter: he 

 referred me to Brehm's »Tierleben" and Flower and Ly- 

 dekker's » Mammals." 



Indeed on p. 245 of Brehm's Tierleben , Saugethiere , 

 zweiter Band, 1890, Dr. Pechuel Loesche stated: »der 

 Biruang [Ursus malayamis) bewohnt Borneo, Java, Suma- 

 tra, die Malayische Halbinsel und verbreitet sich nordwai'ts 

 durch Tenasserim bis nach Burma und durch Arakan bis 

 nach Tschittagong" ; and in Flower and Lydekker's Mam- 

 mals, 1891, p. 559, the geographical distribution of the 

 Malay Bear or Sun Bear [Ursus malayanus) runs as fol- 

 lows: »this small species inhabits the Malay Peninsula, 

 Sumatra , Java , Borneo , Tenasserim , Arakan , Chittagong 

 and the Garo hills of India." 



Scrutinizing what has been published concerning the 

 geographical distribution of the Malay Bear I see that 

 there are more authors who believe that in the island of 

 Java is living a Bear. I only have to remember the opi- 

 nion of the following authors. 



Notes from the Leyden M.u.seuin , Vol. XX.. 



