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The tii^cr of Bali, P. t. halica Scliwarz (Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (8) X, 1912, p. 325) seems to me to have still 

 narrower and fewer stripes than the Javanese race (four 

 Bali specimens examined). Schwarz who only saw one 

 skin, says the markings are broader and more duplicated ! 

 He also states that the Bali animal is recognisable by its 

 smaller size. I think that size and skull characters are 

 very untrustworthy guides for distinguishing Malaysian 

 tigers : they depend so much on age as we have shown 

 (I.c.s.) C. Boden Kloss]. 



5. Fells pardus Linn. 



It has sometimes been doubted whether the panther 

 really occurs in Sumatra, but Mr. Boden Klos« drew my 

 attention to a record of Schneider, who saw a black panther 

 at Batu Bahra, and he himself knows of a second animal 

 fired at, but missed in the Besidency of Sumatra's East 

 Coast some 1.5 years ago. I myself have been told several 

 times of black panthers having been shot by Euroi)eans, 

 and native hunters informed me repeatedly that a black 

 l)anther, which they called kumhanq was known to them. 

 In .lava where the same name is applied to the melanistic 

 variety of Felis pardus, it is much rarer than the normally 

 coloured animal. I know, how^ever, of no authentic record 

 of a Felis pardus of the normal yellow colour with black 

 markings having been obtained in Sumatra. Over and over 

 again F^uropean hunters assured me that they had shot such 

 an animal, but on closer investigation all these cases turned 

 out to refer to Felis nebulosa, the " rimau dahan " of the 

 Malays. 



My opinion, that the normally coloured Felis pardus 

 does not live in Sumatra is still unshaken, and I am very 

 much inclined to believe that the black animals shot or 

 seen in this country are nothing else than melanistic 

 examples of Felis nebulosa. I may mention, that this is 

 also the opinion of the well-known tiger hunter Mr. B. 

 Ledeboer. 



6. Lutra lutra barang Cuv. 



Lnlra vulgaris barang Robinson & Kloss, Journ. F.M.S. Mus. VUI, 

 pt. 11 (1918), p. 13. 



1 $ (skin and skull) Fort de Kock, West coast of 

 Sumatra, 920 metres (3,()0() ft.), 15th June 1920, No. EJ. 

 404, leg. E. Jacobson. 



Measurements in the flesh : — 



Head and body, 557 ; tail, 470 ; hind foot, 109 ; ear, 

 19 mm. 



Skull : greatest length, 104 ; condylo-basal k^ngth, 106 ; 

 basal length, 98 ; palataF length, 47 ; greatest length on 

 outer edge of p.m.\ 10-7 ; greatest diameter of m', 10-7 ; 

 interorbital breadth, 19 ; postorbital breadth, 14 ; cranial 

 breadth, 48-5 ; mastoid breadth, 5(5 ; zygomatic breadth, 

 60-5 mm. 



