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ON A SMALL COLLECTION OF MAMMALS FROM CAMBODIA. 



By C. Boden Kloss, f.z.s. 



In 1918 Dr. Malcolm Smith's reptile collectors spent the 

 greater part of December in Cambodia: they brought back, as 

 usual, some well prepared mammal skins ^vhich have been referred 

 to me for determination. 



The mammals of Cambodia have been so little investigated 

 that the specimens, though few, are worth putting on record : 

 amongst them is what appears to be a new race of striped squirrel 

 (Tamiops). 



The collectors seem first to have visited Pak Kong, i.e., the 

 mouth of the Kong river. This, apparently, is about ten miles 

 north of Koh Kong (the Island of Kong) and only five or six miles 

 beyond Ok Yam, the most southerly place I collected at in 1914 

 (vide P. Z. S. 1916, p. 28 and map, pi. 1). They next went to " Koh 

 Kape " (Island of Kape) : this I am unable to discover, but the label 

 on the only specimen preserved states that it is near Koh Kong. 

 Thence they sailed southwards to Sre Umbel (which will be found 

 on any decent map of Cambodia), and proceeding up-river, directly 

 northwards for about twenty miles, stopped at Kompong Som. 

 Afterwards they visited Kompong Som Bon : I cannot trace this 

 place but it cannot be far from Kompong Som. The collection was, 

 therefore, made in the lowlands of the Cambodian coast region. 



1. Tupaia glis cambodiana Kloss. 



Tupaia glis cambodiana Kloss, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, III, 

 1919, p. 357 (Klong Yai, S.E. Siam). 



Tupaia concolor Kloss (nee Bonh.), P.Z.S. 1916, y>. 36. 



1 6 ad., 1 9 ad., Kompong Som Bon, near Sre Umbel, S.W. 

 Cambodia. 21st-23rd Dec. 1918 [Nos 2715, 6/CBK.]. Dr. Malcolm 

 Smiths's collector. 



This race is more like T. g. belangeri from S. E. and S. W. 

 Siam than T. g. concolor of S. Annam, differing from it in rather 

 richer colour and less developed neck-stripes. It is much more 

 warmly coloured than T. g. concolor in which the neck-stripes are 

 practically obsolete. 



VOL. IV, NO. 2, 1920. 



