248 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII, 



Teagulus javanicus bokneanus. 



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

 XV, 1902, p. 550: Lyon, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXIII. 

 i9°7, P- 550. 



Tragulus napu bomeanus, Lyon. op. cit., XL, 191 1, p. 64. 



Tragulus javanicus bomeanus, Lvdekker. Cat. Ung. Brit. 

 Mus., IV, 1915. p. 2JO. 



Of six specimens from Paku Saribas, Sarawak, two are 

 indistinguishable in general colouration from the Sumatran 

 and Malayan napu : the others are more heavily clouded with 

 black above. On the whole, the neck chevron in darker; the 

 dark element being more intensely black, less brownish black. 



Of two specimens from the Kapuas R, Western Borneo, 

 Lyon says : ' The skins are practically indistinguishable in 

 coloration from specimens of 7". napu from Sumatra." Later, 

 dealing with a large series, he sums up the position as follows : — 

 " A careful comparison of these with a large number of speci- 

 mens from various localities in Sumatra, the type-locality of 

 napu, shows that the Sumatran and Bornean napus are almost 

 i lentical in point of size, color, and cranial characters. The 

 Bornean animal averages a very little smaller in most exter- 

 nal and cranial measurements. At the same time the throat 

 markings are slightly darker and the collar slightly wider than 

 they are in typical napu. These differences, however, are 

 very slight and not at all constant, and it is only possible to 

 identify with certainty a little over half the specimens in each 

 series." 



Habitat : — Borneo and Pulau Laut. 



Specimens examined : — Six. 



Tragulus javanicus stanleyanus. 



This race was based by Gray on living animals of 

 unknown provenance. Various suggestions have been made 

 as to the habitat : — the Sunda Islands by Milne-Edwards, and 

 the Malay Peninsula by several other writers. Twenty years 

 acquaintance with Malaysia, however, has convinced me that 

 no such form occurs on the mainland and that the examples 

 known to Gray came from Battam Island, opposite Singapore, 

 on the south side of the Strait, whence to this day living 

 animals are not infrequently brought over and offered for sale 

 in the Singapore bazaar. 



Gray's description exactly fits the Battam race and 

 Singapore is so obviously a port from which living animals 

 might have been taken to England that I feel one would be 

 wilfully blind to facts in refusing to accept Battam Island as 

 the typical locality of stanleyanus, though Miller, while stanley- 

 anus was looked on as a species of undetermined provenance, 

 has described the Battam stanleyanus (first rediscovered by 

 myself) as Tragulus perflavus. 



