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VII. MAMMALS. 



By Herbert C. Robinson, CM.Z.S,, Director of Museums, 

 Federated Malay States, 



The collection of mammals made by Mr. Stanley Kemp, assis- 

 ted by officers of the Abor Expeditionary Force, is not a large one 

 and contains specimens of 26 species only. No specimens were 

 collected at any altitude above 4000 ft. and therefore the collec- 

 tion contains no actual novelties as would probably have been the 

 case if collecting had been possible above seven or eight thousand, 



Arrangements are being made to figure, in a final 

 paper dealing with the Zoological Results of the Abor 

 Expedition as a whole, a number of the new species of 

 insects described without figures in this Part. 



calit}'' as the preceding specimen, is evidently made from the skin of 

 some species of Langur, probably P. entellus or P. schistaceus. 

 The latter species is stated by Butler (Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 xliv (i), p. 332, 1875) to occur in the Naga Hills, but Blanford 

 (op. cit., p. 30) throws doubt on the identification. 



3. Viverra zibetha, Linn. 



Blanford, op. cit., p. 96. 



The large Indian civet is represented by two ethnographical 

 specimens, an ornament for a sword hilt made out of a tail 

 obtained at Debuk Damda and a haversack of body skin, from 

 Komsing, both secured by Mr. Kemp. The body fur is, as might 

 be expected, much thicker than in southern specimens with a 

 distinct woolly underfur, which is almost absent in examples of the 

 same species from the Malayan region. 



