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ON MAMMALS FROM THE KHIO AKCJII I'KI, \< ;< j \M) 

 MALAY PENINSULA COLLECTED LV Mk.s.sus. II. r. 

 EOBINSON, C. BODEN KLOS.S AND E. .SEIML'NI^. AND 

 PKESENTED TO THE NATIONAL MUSEL'M HV THE 

 GOVERNMENT OF THE lEDEKATED MALAY STATES. 

 Bv OLUFIKLD THOMAS, i-.k.s., amj K. C. WUOLGUTON, t.z.s. 



WITH NOTES. 



B\ TUK CoI.r.LCTOKS. 



{FahlUhcd li!/ nennissioti of the Troftves of the liiili>'h Mimeiint.) 



INURING 1908 Mr. H. C. Robinson, Director of Museums, IVk-r- 

 ated Malay States, and Lis assistant Mr. E. Seiinuud made a 

 collecting trip to the Rhio Archipelago, south ol" Singapore, and 

 obtained a magniticent series of mammals, prepared in the be-.t niudern 

 manner, and forming a very full representation of the Mammal Fauna 

 of the islands. This collection was supplemented by a series of otlnM- 

 specimens obtained in Singapore itself and on the coast uf S.-E. 

 and E. Johore and the adjacent islands, as well as by other ^l^ecimenM 

 from the vicinity of Kuala Lumpur in Selangor, and from the 

 hills near Taiping in Perak. which latter were secured in coujunctii>n 

 with Mr. C. B. Kloss. 



By the enlightened generosity of the authorities of the Federated 

 Malay States a full set of these specimens, numbering nearly GO<J 

 skins, has l»ecu pr.'.scu(ed to the National Musevun, in urdcr that 

 the result of so important an e.xpedition should In? of U'UeKt to 

 science in general as well as to the local institutions. 



The Rhio Archipelago has been hitherto entirely unrepreseutctl 

 either in our own Museum, oi", so far as \vc know, in any other. 

 except the United States National Museum, which posse.sses the 

 series obtained by Dr. W. L. Abbott during his various visits to 

 the islands and some smaller collections from Uv. Kloss. Ou thestJ 

 latter have been based the only papers pul)lished <.n the Khio 

 Mammals— viz.. 



Miller, G. S. : -The Mammals collected by Dr. W. L. .VI.Ik.II 

 in the Rhio-Linga Archipelago." P. U. S. Sal. Mn'>.. xwi, 

 pp. 247-28t), PJOt;. AVith map : 



Lyon. M. W. : "Mammals nf P.alam hlaiid. IJIiio Arelui^-iuKi.." 

 Tviii. rii.. pp. (553-057. 



The present collection, therefore, i> "t tii<- iiu.>t uuiteriul iiuiM.rtnu.v. 

 l)oth in tilling up such a considerable hiatus iu our eoll.vtionh and in 

 enabling us to appraise the value of the many siK«eies desml^il by the 

 American naturalists referred to. In addition, we have found .hvjm.|oi» 

 to describe from the collections 10 additional nptvies and Hub.«peiMt^. 

 some from the islands and some from the adjonung mainland. <|f 

 these new forms, we have given preliu.inary di;ignoM>> ui ihc " Annah 

 and Magazine of Natural Historv - for May, IWJ. 



