THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THIRD SERIES. 
Vot. V.] OCTOBER, 1881. [No. 58. 
ANIMAL LIFE IN BORNEO. 
By W. B. Prysr, C.M.Z.S. 
A FEw remarks about the animals to be found in the neigh- 
bourhood of Elopura, Sandakan Bay, may perhaps be acceptable 
to naturalists. Some months ago I was requested by the Secretary 
of the Zoological Society to try and secure for him a few of the 
common Gymuura (G. Rafilesii).* The Sooloos of these parts are 
- not clever trappers, and it was no use asking them; but there 
was an adept at hand, who had been employed by Mr. Low for 
a similar purpose, and on application to him this nobleman in 
reduced circumstances undertook to trap for me, and the result 
was a perfect deluge of birds and animals of all kinds—Argus 
Pheasants, Partridges, Gymnuras, Tingalums, Musangs, and other 
things—the market, in fact, was overstocked. 
The trap used is a cruel one: a loop arranged at the end of a 
stout bent sapling, so that when an animal is noosed it is suddenly 
jerked, usually by one leg, upside down in the air, and held 
suspended until the trapper comes round, which is generally not 
* This curious animal, the native name for which is Bulaw, may be 
regarded as a connecting link between the Hedgehogs and Shrews, resembling 
a Hedgehog with flexible hairs, and having an elongated shrew-like head, 
and a long, almost bare tail like that of a rat. It was originally discovered 
in Sumatra by Sir Stamford Raffles, who described it as a Civet under the 
name Viverra gymnura, and besides inhabiting Borneo is also found in the 
neighbouring island of Sarawak. It is about two feet in length, of which 
one half is tail—Eb. 
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