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VII. MAMMALS. 



By Herbert C. Robinson, C.M.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 

 feet. The series of the recently described Sciurus stevensi is 

 however interesting, while the single specimen of Dremomys pernyi 

 indicates a very wide range for a very distinct species originally 

 described from Sze-chuen. Otherwise the species present belong 

 to the ordinary sub-Himalayan and Assamese fauna. 



I. Macaca (?) rhesus (Audebert). 



Macacus rhesus, Blanford, Faun. Brit. Ind. Mamm., p. 13 



(1888) 



A haversack obtained at Debuk Damda by Mr. Kemp ap- 

 pears to have been made from the body skin of this or an allied 

 form or is possibly derived from Macaca assamensis. Positive 

 identification is of course impossible. 



2. Presbytes, sp. 



A small pouch for flint and steel, obtained in the same lo- 

 cality 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. 



