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Sumatra. Pocock (1933, pp. 1018-1019) records additional speci- 

 mens from Ulu If ok, Perak; Wellesley Province, Straits Settlements; 

 Tenasserim Village; and Sanderan Agong, Sumatra. 



Nias Binturong 



ARCTICTIS BINTURONG NIASENSIS Lyon 



Arctictis miasensis Lyon, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 52, p. 443, 1916. (Near 

 Fadoro, Nias Island, off west coast of Sumatra.) 



Forty years ago this Binturong was "said not to be common" 

 (W. L. Abbott, in Lyon, 1916, p. 443) . 



"Upper parts of back of head, neck, body, and all of tail, brownish 

 black, coarsely and rather sparsely grizzled with ochraceous tawny 

 on the lower back, sides, outerside of legs, and proximal two-thirds 

 of tail; under parts tawny ochraceous." Tail, 540 mm. The ochra- 

 ceous-tawny in the present form is replaced by buff or ochraceous- 

 buff in A. b. binturong. (Lyon, 1916, p. 443.) Cranial and dental 

 differences are discussed by Miller (1942, pp. 123-124). 



This Binturong is apparently restricted to Nias Island. Since the 

 type specimen was described, a second individual has been recorded 

 by Miller (1942, pp. 123-124) , who quotes the collector, Frederick A. 

 Ulmer, Jr., as follows: "The young binturong was purchased alive 

 from the natives of Soliga in Central Nias and was the only one I 

 saw, although I heard of one other specimen in captivity near 

 Gunong Sitoli." Ulmer also refers to it as a "rare animal." 



Banka Binturong 



ARCTICTIS BINTURONG KERKHOVENI Sody 



Arctictis binturong kerkhoveni Sody, Natuurk. Tijdschr. Nederl. Indie, vol. 96, 

 no. 1, p. 43, 1936. ("Banka Island," Malay Archipelago.) 



This form is based upon a tingle specimen from Banka Island. 



It is the smallest subspecies. The fur is black, with short buffy 

 tips to the hairs in some places, especially the head and forelegs; 

 tail plain black, with light buffy bases to hairs on basal two-thirds 

 of the ventral surface. Head and body, 600 mm.; tail, 520 mm. 

 (Sody, 1936, p. 43.) 



No information is at hand concerning the frequency of the Bin- 

 turong on Banka. 



Himalayan Binturong 



ARCTICTIS BINTURONG ALBIFRONS (F. Cuvier) 



Paradoxurus albifrons F. Cuvier, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. [Parisl, vol. 9, p. 48, 

 pi. 4, upper fig., 1822. (Based upon a menagerie specimen in Bengal, 

 said to have come from Bhutan.) 



