MYDAÜS MKLICEPS. 



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NOTE IX. 



ON TWO MAMMALS 

 FROM THE CALAMIANES-ISLANDS 



Dr. P. A. JENTINK. 



June 1895. 



My daus meliceps Cuvier. 



The study of the geographical distribution of the Mam- 

 mals over the islands of the Malayan Archipelago teaches 

 us the fact that only a very small number of species is 

 common to Sumatra and Borneo and at the same time to 

 Java. The most interesting species among them is without 

 question Mydaus meliceps^ as it presents a most singular 

 fact in its local distribution, as it is confined exclusively 

 to high mountains and never seems to visit the plains '). 

 It causes extensive injury to the plantations and it infects 

 its vicinity by projecting a fetid matter of a very violent 

 odour : two reasons why it is very hated by the inhabitants 

 so that it never would come in any one's head to bring 

 the animal over from Sumatra to Borneo or Java, or 

 vice versa. We must look upon it as if a relic from a 



1) See Dr. Horafield, Zoological researches in Java and the neighhourir 

 islands, 1824. 



Notes from the Leyden DMuseixm, Vol. XVII. 



