2Ö8 ON THE NEW-GUINEA MAMMALS. 



visible; the animal is from western N. G. and has been 

 presented to the Museum by Mr. Bruyn. Another large 

 specimen in the same collection is from Hattam, presented 

 by Mr. Th. H. Ruys ; it presents the very beautiful black 

 colour all over the animal, with the exception of the base 

 of the beak, the hands half way and the feet, which 

 parts are of a brownish colour; nearly all the spines are 

 hidden under the dense fur. A third individual in the Leyden- 

 Museum is a young one from Andai, presented by Mr. Ruys 

 to our collection ; body and legs are of a uniform dark- 

 brown colour; spines almost invisible, so that the animal 

 looks as if spineless. Claws as figured in Weber's paper on 

 "eene nieuwe soort van Proechidna". 



125. Proechidna nigro-aculeata Rothschild. 



The single known specimen is that upon which the 

 species has been based; according to Mr. Rothschild the 

 animal is much larger than Bruynii, has a much shorter 

 middle claw of the fore foot than Bruynii, all the claws 

 are much broader than in Bruynii, and considerably hollow- 

 ed out on the under surface; finally nigro-aculeata has a 

 much longer and stouter tail. The type is from the Char- 

 les Louis Mountains, Dutch N. G. (P. Z. S. L., 1892, p. 

 545), east of the Lobo-Bay. 



Pachydermata. 



126. Sus papuensis Lesson. 



I have nothing to add to what I said concerning this 

 Pig in the "Notes from the Leyden Museum" (1891, on the 

 Malayan and Papuan Pigs in the Leyden Museum, and 

 1905, *Si<s-studies in the Leyden Museum). 



127. Sus niger Finsch. 

 I refer to my papers on this species in the "Notes from 

 the Leyden Museum' (1891, "on the Malayan and Papuan 

 Pigs in the Leyden Museum", and 1905 "ASi^s-studies in 

 the Leyden Museum"). 



P^otes from the I^eyden JMuseum, Vol. XXVIII. 



