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Schlegel aud Muller iu the niouograpli on the wild Pigs 

 from the Malayan Archipelago, which forms a part of the 

 bulky book «Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke Geschiedenis 

 der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen door de leden 

 der natuurkundige commissie in Indië en andere schrijvers, 

 uitgegeven op last van den koning door C. J. Temminck, 

 1839 — 1844". This splendid book has been written in 

 dutch and therefore, although the book is well-known to 

 all scientific workers, it mostly has been misunderstood, as 

 I often exhibited in my different papers ^) on the Malayan 

 Mammals. Therefore I intend, if required, to give brief 

 translations of the dutch descriptions of the external parts 

 of the type-specimens, the bony parts being more transiently 

 mentioned by the named authors. 



1. Sus barhatus S. Muller. 



The type-specimen is an adult female with its young, 

 one of a litter of four; they have been killed in the neigh- 

 borhood of the village Poeloe-lampej, not off the bank 

 of the Moloekko-river, South-eastern Borneo. This adult 

 female has been described and figured as having a large 

 extraordinarily elongated and narrow head, very long un- 

 dulating bristles on the cheeks, small ears, aud the tail 

 ending in a big tuft. Besides these characters and its size 

 the species is very remarkable, wrote S. Muller, by the 

 diversity in color of the specimens, some ones being nearly 

 brownish yellow throughout, others about blackish, in pro- 

 portion to the prevailing yellowish or blackish hairs. 



This adult /ema^e-specimen, figured in the » Verhande- 

 lingen", Tab. 30, fig. 1, and previously described iu » Tijd- 

 schrift voor Natuurlijke geschiedenis en Physiologie", 

 1838 — 1839, p. 149, has after Muller the nose of a brownish 

 flesh color; the animal may be described after the stuffed 

 type-specimen as follows: anterior part of muzzle bald, on 

 its middle a rather broad cross-band of black stiff hairs, 



1) In «the Notes from the Leyden Museum". 



IN'otes from the Leyden lYIuseuui, Vol. XXVI. 



