WHAT ABOUT THE JAVAN BEAR? Ill 



Tarabelan, Gross-Natuna, Labuan , Balabak, Cala- 

 uiyanes, Cuyo, Cogayan, Sulu, Sibutu , Solombo 

 und Paternoster-Iuseln seiue Heimath." 

 1897. E, L. Trouessabt. Catalogus Mammalium tarn viven- 

 tium quam fossilium, fasciculus II, p. 244: »Iudo- 

 China, ? Birma, Pegu, Arakan , Chittagon , Garo 

 Hills, Tenasserim, Malacca, Sumatra, Java, Borneo." 



Tbe principal question now arises: »on what typical 

 Java-specimens bas been based the above cited locality 

 Java] where are specimens from that locality stored up in 

 Musea as » documents"? And the answer is, that accord- 

 ing to Blyth's Catalogue, 1863, and Sclater's Catalogue, 

 1891, there is in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, a skin of 

 a specimen from Java , presented by Captain Scholefield. 

 We find the history relating this specimen in J. A. S. B. 

 Vol. XVII, 1848, part I, p. 250: »the curator Zoological 

 Department reported that Capt. Scholefield , of the Schooner 

 » Sydney", presented a dead female Ursus malayanus, from 

 Java. Perfectly identical , as a species , with specimens 

 from Assam, Tenasserim, a. s. o.; but the individual re- 

 markable for two great black patches occupying much of 

 the right side of its V-like mark on the chest, and for 

 numerous small spots ') over the remainder of the same 

 mark. It has been set up as a stufied specimen." That is 

 all ! Now a Captain of a Schooner generally spoken is not 

 a naturalist, sothat he could not know that Java was an 

 erroneous locality for a Bear , but it is very strikingly 

 that all naturalists have accepted that locality without 

 comment and without a trace of hesitation. 



Still more inexplicable is the following: according to Gray's 

 Catologue, 1869, p. 235, he has compared the skull of a 



but nobody has seen of heard about the existence of a Bear in Celebes ! I 

 6nd this Active locality too in GiebeFs Saugethiere, 1855, p. 744. 



1) In the Leyden Museum there is a very adult stuffed female (Catalogue 

 1892, p. 151, N°. é) from Borneo in which the white V-shaped patch or 

 mark on the chest also is adorned with numerous small black spots. 



Notes from ttie L<eyderi IMuseum, Vol. XX.. 



