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sent home three or four skulls, which have been identified as those 
of R. swmatrensis. The natives declare a three-horned species 
exists, and I have seen a skull which I should not like to say 
was not a three-horned one, the third horn, however, being 
very small. 
Sportsmen may be interested to learn that a fine large species 
of Red-deer, probably a Sambur, is common enough in the forest, * 
besides one or two species of the genus Bos. I have seen a herd 
of at least fifty wild cattle at once, and was confronted by the 
patriarch, an enormous bull with splendid horns, who looked at 
me, down a glade in the forest, and seemed much inclined to 
charge. Having seen his harem, however, safely out of danger, 
he trotted off after them. All the individuals in this herd were 
coal-black. The only species I have been able to identify with 
any certainty is B. Banteng,+ Raffles; but Iam nearly sure we 
have also common wild cattle, in all probability descendants of 
beasts turned loose by some of the early navigators who visited 
these parts. 
Bears (Ursus malayanus) and a species of Roe-deer [quere, 
Cervulus muntjac ?—Ep.] are to be met with sometimes; Mouse- 
deer (T'ragulus javanicus) are plentiful in places, but can hardly 
be dignified with the title of “big game”; while of wild pigs 
I believe I have made out four distinct species, one of which 
seems identical with the Sus lewcomystax of North China, and 
another, like the wild cattle, appears to be of European origin. 
Of other animals perhaps the most interesting that I have 
seen is a Mydaus, which is said not to have occurred at a lower 
elevation than 7000 feet.{ Here, however, we get it at sea-level, 
and there are hardly any hills above a few hundred feet high 
within forty miles of us. The smell of this animal appears to me 
to have been somewhat overstated, although I must say that once 
* Ts this distinct from Cervus equinus, Cuv., found in Borneo, Sumatra, 
and Singapore; and is equinus distinct from C. aristotelis, Cuv.? Sir Victor 
Brooke refers to intermediate forms (skulls and antlers) which he has seen 
(Proc. Zool. Soc., 1878, p. 901).— Eb. 
+ Better known as Bos sondaicus, an introduced species in Borneo. 
What the “common wild cattle” may be, if not sondaicws, remains to be 
ascertained.—ED. 
} Of this genus M. meliceps, Cuv., is recorded from Sumatra and Java; 
M. taxoides, Blyth, from Assam and Araccan.—Eb. 
