ON MAALMALS FROM BILLITON. 207 



NOTE XXXI. 



SOME ADDITIONS TO THE MAMMALIAN-FAUNA OF 

 BILLITON 



Dr. P. A. JENTINK. 



July 1891. 



In the Notes from the Leyden Museum, 1890, p. 149, 

 I said that Sciurus prevostii belongs to the fauna of Billi- 

 ton; this statement was based upon two specimens procu- 

 red by the late Teysmaun in 1877 in that island and pre- 

 sented to our Museum (cf. Cat. syst. des Mammifères , 1888, 

 p. 26, m and n). Dr. Vorderman kindly informs me that 

 Sciurus prevostii perhaps formerly has been introduced there 

 and afterwards has grown wild. Specimens have been 

 brought over from Mendanao, a small island close to the 

 west coast of Billiton , and are at present living in Billi- 

 ton in the neighborhood of Tandjong Pandan , N. W. Bil- 

 liton, in the gardens, having escaped from their cages. 

 He nowhere in the interior observed a single specimen. 



According to Dr. Vorderman in Billiton is living the Cervus- 

 species known from Banka, viz. Cervulus mu7itjac , moreover 

 the Kidang and Napoe are very common. In a collection 

 of animals from different localities presented by Dr. Vor- 

 derman to our Museum there is a yVa;5rM^Ms-specimen , ac- 

 cording the label called Pelandock by the indigenous — I 

 remember that Dr. Hagen ^) remarked that in Deli the 



1) Die Pflanzeu- und Thierwelt von Deli, auf der Ostküste Sumatra's. Na- 

 turwissenschaftliche Skizzen und Beitrilge, in Kon. Ned. Aardrijkskundig Tijd- 

 schrift, 1890, p. 102. 



Notes from the Leyden jMuseum, Vol. XIII. 



