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of species, at any rate, it is quite exceptional to see cue anywhere tliau 

 on the ground, among the roots of trees or on low bushes. The diet is 

 very mixed, consisting of ants and other insects, fruits, seeds and buds. 

 The nest is found in holes, often in fallen timber, and two young are 

 produced at a birth.— H. C. E. and C. B. K.] 



23. TUPAIA PERRUGINEA BATAMANA, Lyox, 

 (?881, 956, 966, 967; ? 900, 918, 965. Tanjoiig Tm-ut, Batam island, Kliio 



Archipelago. 

 Topotypes. 



[As common in Batam Island as the typical form is in Singapore. — 

 H. C. K. and C B. K.] 



21. ARCTOGALIDIA FUSCA, Mill. 

 $ 1525, 1526. Bliah, Kuudur Island, Rhio ArchiiDelago. 

 Topotypes, 



25. ARCTOGALIDIA SIMPLEX, Mill. 

 (?939; $938. Tanjoug Turut, Bataui Island, Rhio Archipelago. 

 [Species of this genus, to which the name of palm-civet far more 

 properly applies than to the commoner Paradoxurm, are apparently by 

 no means rare in the Ehio Archipelago. It is evidently far more 

 diurnal than the ordinary musang and less carnivorous in its diet. It 

 was numerous among the coconuts, fringing the east coast of Batam, 

 and several were shot at dusk, though an individual has also been shot 

 at midday while feeding in shady forests. 



On the Peninsula itself the genus is rare and none of the local 

 Museums possess an adult specimen, and neither of us have during 

 many years seen a specimen in the flesh. — H. C. R. and C. B. K.] 



26. AONYX CINEREUS, III. 

 c? 770. Pasir Panjang, Bintaug Island, Rhio Archipelago. 

 [Common among the mangroves on the shore. 



Quite the most abundant of the otters of the Malay Peninsula and 

 found equally in salt, brackish and fresh water, and even in mountain 

 streams.— h' C. R. and C. B. K.] 



27. RATUFA AFFINIS, Raffles. 

 (? lOJ^l. Changi, Singapore Island. 



Topotype. 



[Now getting rather scarce in Singapore, though common in 

 S. Johore. Its extension northwards is very limited, and we do 

 not know of any specimen obtained in the interior of the State. In 

 Malacca and Negri Sembilan its place seems to be taken by the form 

 to which the name of Batnfa affinis aureiventer, Geoff., has been applied 

 by Bouhote. Further north on the west side of the mountains the 

 dark-footed species 11. injrsonota, Mill., begins to appear. The black 

 and yellow species B. melanopepla, Mill., occurs throughout the Penin- 

 sula except in the districts inhabited by B. afiiiis. It is not kuown 

 from Singapore. — H. C. R. and C. B. K.] 



