XXX. NOTES ON MALAYAN AND OTHER 

 MOUSE-DEER. 



By C. Boden Kloss, F.Z.S. 



There is in thi Fed< rated Mala) States Museums a fairly 

 large collection of Tragulidae from the Malay Peninsula and 

 the immediate neighbourhood, and as there are available foi 



the moment specimens from Banco (belonging to Mr. II. ('. 

 Robinson) and from Siam (in my possession), the opportunity 



has been taken to review all this material. 



In dealing with Mouse-deer in large >eru s one cannot fail 

 to be impressed with the large degree of individual variation 

 that exists in adults as regards colouration, skull and dental 

 characters and also size; and it is obvious that races must be 

 judged, not by individuals, but by the average, or majority, 

 features of series. 



The only real differences amongst Malaysian ' animals 

 seem to be those of colour and these differences are so intimately 

 mingled geographically that it >cems best to regard all races 

 as belonging to two species only — javanicus and kanchil. 



Malays haw: various names for Mouse-deer — in the 

 Peninsula there arc current napu (napoh) and munkonong 

 (bengkunang), pelaiidok 2 and kanchil : the last two names are 

 interchangeable but as a rule muukonong and kanchil are 

 applied to the young of napu (Greatei Mouse-deer) and pelaiidok 

 (Lesser Mouse-deer) respectively. 



I have proposed type localities for two old names hitherto 

 undetermined: rejected two races proposed: and described 

 two new ones. 



Tragulus javanicus napu. 



Moschus napu. F. Cuv., Mist. Nat. Mamm.. III. livr. 37, pi. 

 329 11822). 



Tragulus javanicus, Cantor, fourn. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XV, 

 1846, p. 269. 



Tragulus napu, Mower. F.Z.S., 1900, p. .574; Wroughton, 

 Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc, Bombay, XXIII, 1015. p. 717. 



Tragulus canescens, Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc Washington. 

 1900, p. 185 ; id.. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXV 1 1, moo. p. 5 ; 

 Kloss, fourn. F.M.S. Mus.. H. [908, p. tj.S : id., op. cit., IV, 

 1911, p. 138. 



Tragulus javanicus canescens, Kloss. Journ. Straits Branch 

 Roy. Asiat. Soc, No. 53, 1909, p. 43: Lydekker, Cat. Ungu- 

 lates, Brit. Mus., I V, [91 5, p. 271. 



1 Malaysian— Pertaining to the ula, Sumatra, Borneo and 



Java Malayan — Pertaining to the Mala; -mi mat ran, etc 



i -Final fi 



