ON A FURTHER COLLP^CTION OF MAMMALS AND 

 BIRDS FRO:k[ THE HILLS OF NEGRI SEMBILAN. 



By H. C. ROBIN'SOX, c.xi.z.s., m.b.o.u., axd C. BODEX KLOSS, f.z.s., m.b.o.u. 



XN a recent number of this Journal one of us has given a list 

 of a collection of mammals and birds obtained on the Telapa 

 Buroh range in Negri Sembilan, which showed that the Himalaaic 

 element, which is the dominant featui'e of the fauna of the higher 

 hills of Pahang, Perak and Selangor, does not extend so far south as 

 Negri Sembilan, and this is confirmed by the present series. In 

 September, 1913, the Dyak collectors of the Museum were sent 

 to collect on Grunong Tampin, in the extreme south of the State, 

 which attains a height of 2,507 feet and may l)e regarded as the 

 southern termination of the Peninsular main range, hills of greater 

 elevation in Malacca and Johore being quite isolated by wide tracts of 

 low-lying country. 



The collection, though not very extensive, contains several species 

 of considerable interest, and we have therefore thought it Avorth while 

 to give a list in full as it altogether includes six mammals and 25 

 birds not recorded in the two previous papers. * 



The party were camped at about 1,000 feet in heavy jungle, and 

 collections were made from that elevation to the summit. 



MAMMALS. 



1. SYMPHALAXGUS SYNDACTYLUS COXTINEXTIS, TnovAS. 



Hylohates fsyndactylus (Desm.) ; Flower, P.Z.S., 1900, p. 313 ; 

 Robinson, Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus., i, p. 26 (1905). 



A pair of large adults. 



The Siamang is rather rare in the south of tlie Peninsula and is 

 not usually found at low elevations. 



2. HYLOBATES LAR (Liyy.). 

 A large female in the black pelage. 



.3. RATUFA AFFIXIS AUREIVEXTER (Geoffr). 

 <?, 2 ?. 



Rather variable, one female having the hands and feet dark 

 chocolate brown. 



4. RATUFA MELANOPEPLA. :Miller. 



2 <?, ?. 



Apparently as common as the preceding on this hill. 



* Robinson, Jonrn. F.M.S. Museums, i, p. 25, 1905-6. 



Kloss, op. cit., iv, p. 219, 1909-11. 



