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Mr. E. Scliwarz on Malai/ Tigers. 



distance from gill-opening to vent. Eye a little nearer to 

 angle of mouth than to end of snout ; cleft of mouth ^ the 

 length of head or a little less. Coloration uniform. 



Three specimens, 300 to 330 mm. in total length, from 

 Lao-OS and Elobi. 



I 



XLIII. — Notes on Malay Tigers, with Description of a new 

 Form from Bali. By Eknst Schwarz. 



In 1868* Fitzinger described the tiger from Sumatra and 

 Java as " Der Sunda-Tiger '^ {Tigris sondaica). As the 

 Sumatra and Java tigers are subspecifically distinct, Fitz- 

 inger's name can only stand for one of these, and I propose 

 to use it for the Javari race. In 1908 Pocock used Fitzinger's 

 name for the Sumatran tiger^ but he does not appear to have 

 distinguished more than one race of Malay tiger, but simply 

 followed Fitzinger. 



In the diagnosis of Tigris sondaica Fitzinger describes the 

 stripes as follows : — " fasciis angustis transversalibus parura 

 numerosis.^^ In a skin of a tiger from Java in the Sencken- 

 berg Museum, Frankfurt-a.-M., the stripes are narrow, as 

 described by Fitzinger, whereas in a skin from Deli, 

 Sumatra, in the same collection, and in the specimen 

 described and figured by Pocock f (also Deli, Sumatra), they 

 are '' numerous, closely placed, and broad." 



The tiger from Java will therefore have to stand as Felis 

 tigris sotidaica (Fitzinger). 



The following races of Malay tiger can be distinguished : — 



Felis tigris, subsp. 



Felis ti(jris, var. nigra, Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. R. Anim., Mamm. p. 50 



(1842) (Sumatra) (noiu. uud.). 

 J'tgris sondaica, Fitzinger (part.), Sitzungsb. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



math.-nat. CI. Bd. Iviii. i. Abth. p. 454 (1868) (Java). 

 Felis tigris sondaica, Pocock (part. ?), P. Z. S. 1908, ii. pp. 890-893, 



text-tig. 174 (1908). 



Hab, Sumatra. 



Specijnens examined. 1 S skull, 1 ? skin (mounted) with 

 skull. Deli, Sumatra. Senckenberg Museum, Fraukfurt- 

 a.-M. 



* Sitzungsb. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. CI. Bd. Iviii. i. Abth. 

 p. 454 (1868). 



t P. Z. S. 1908, ii. pp. 890-893, text-fig. 174 (1908). 



