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JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Natural History Society of Siaiii 



Volume 11. BANGKOK. Number 1. 



ON A COLLECTION OF MAMMALS FROM SIAM. 

 Bv C. BoDKX Kbotis, i-.z.s. 



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I am imlebted to ilessr.s. E. G. Herbert and .^[alL•olm Smith for 

 tlie opportunity of examining a collection of mammals made at various 

 localities in Siam. Tliongl' these gentlemen are primarily interested 

 in birds and reptiles, at my suggestion they have been good enough to 

 instruct their collectors to preserve examples of such mammals as 

 might be met with by them while in pursuit of their proper duties. 

 The result is a small but illuminating consignment which includes 

 several interesting specimens, amongst which are a new llijlomijs or 

 Lesser Gymnura and new i\aces of langur and forest rat, while the 

 discovery, just north of the Isthmus of Kra, oi Phoaiscus atfox, a genua 

 of bat known hitherto by only two specimens from Sumatra, is also 

 very noteworthj'. 



I have given descriptions of the specimens ( which will not 

 however, always serve to distinguish the races listed here from other 

 subspecies occurring in neighbouring areas) in order that they ma\' be 

 recognised without consultation of the references which, with one 

 exception, are probably not accessible to residents in Siam. Blanford's 



