380 TWO YEAES IN THE JUNGLE. 



one, he climbed into the tree containing the orang, put the muzzle 

 of his gun so near the animal's body that he could not fail to hit, 

 and fired. 



The Malays are quite expert in catching deer. Besides noosing 

 a fine sambur buck [Eusa equina?) they caught for me Java deer 

 (" plandok "), one after another, until I cried enough. The latter 

 (Tragulus napu) is the smallest of all the deer tribe, being a true 

 pigmy only nine inches high, very trim, graceful and pretty, but, 

 unfortunately, without antlers. The sambur was a much-dwarfed, 

 faded-out, thin-haired representative of his species, in comparison 

 with the noble stags of the Auimallais. His antlers were also very 

 insignificant in comparison, but as for that I have seen fully as 

 great variation in the antlers of our Virginia deer in a far smaller 

 area of distribution. 



Two specimens of a curious viverrine animal, half cat and half 

 otter, the Cynogale Bennettii, were brought in, several civet cats, a 

 beautiful flying lemur [Galeopitheciis volans), and a slow-paced 

 lemur [Nycticebus tardigradus). The Cynogale, for which I believe 

 there is no common name unless we call it the otter cat, is peculiar 

 to Borneo, and only one species is known. Its muzzle is exti'emely 

 broad at the end (2f inches), but narrows suddenly midway be- 

 tween the end of the nose and the eyes, which gives the head a 

 very strange appearance, totally unlike that of any other quadru- 

 ped I am acquainted with. The animal is 24:f inches in length of 

 head and body, and the tail measures 7 inches. It is covered with 

 a rather thick coat of moderately long but fine fur, of a uniform 

 dark-brown color. I shot in the neighborhood several specimens 

 of the common gray monkey {llacacus cynomolgus), a pig-tailed ma- 

 caque {M. nemestrinus), here called the " broque " in Malay, from 

 which the outlandish common name of " bruh " has been evolved. 



One day a party of Dyaks amved from the head of the Sibuyau 

 River, between the Sadong and Batang Lupar, bringing several 

 fragmentary skins of argus pheasant, which had been taken off in 

 native fashion for the wing and tail feathers, and also a live argus. 

 The poor bird had had a hard time of it, and in looking at it I felt 

 guilty of cruelty to animals. In its struggles it had lost half its 

 body feathers, and, worst of all, when it was caught in the noose 

 one of its legs had been dislocated. I lost no time in putting it 

 beyond the reach of further pain. 



The Sibuyau people told me that argus pheasants and animals 

 of many kinds I had not yet found were plentiful around their vil- 



