72 MR. O. THOMAS ON THE MAMMALS OF [Jan. 19, 



24. Tragulus kanchil. Raff. 



a-c. Bankasun, 5 and 6/77. 

 Mr. Blanford' has fully described the differences between the two 

 Tenasserim species of Chevrotain. 



25. Manis javanica, Desm. 

 a. Bankasun, 1/75. 



IV. The Malay Peninsula Collection. 



The mammals from the Malay Peninsula are 105 in number, and 

 belong to 28 species, of which no less than 13 are Sciuridse, a group 

 always well represented in collections made by ornithologists. As 

 in the case of the other series, the greater part of this set were 

 collected by Mr. Davison, although some few were obtained by 

 Mr. J. Darling at Salanga and on the mainland adjoining, and by 

 Mr. Syers in Salangore. 



As might be expected, these specimens, while of considerable value 

 in fixing the northward and southward distribution of the species 

 along the narrow Malay peninsula, belong for the most part to 

 common species. There is, however, among them a specimen 

 representing a beautiful new species of Sciuropterus, which I have 

 dedicated to its discoverer, Mr. Davison, and there are many which 

 render important service in contributing additional information as to 

 the exact localities and other particulars about the species to which 

 they belong. 



The only previous paper of any importance on the mammals of 

 this district is that published by Dr. Theodore Cantor in 1846 ^ 

 which gives a complete list of the species then known to occur in the 

 " Malay Peninsula and Islands," but which, excellent as it is for the 

 date at which it was written, is now, of course, somewhat obsolete, 

 and would well bear the addition of such information as may be 

 gleaned from Mr. Hume's valuable collection. 



Many of the localities at which the collection was obtained are 

 referred to or described in the two following papers : — 



A. O. Hume. "A First Tentative List of the Birds of the 

 Western Half of the Malay Peninsula," ' Stray Feathers,' 

 viii. p. 37, 1879. 

 A. O. Hume. " The Birds of the Western Half of the Malay 

 Peninsula, Second Notice, torn. cit. p. 151. 



1. Semnopithecus femoralis, Horsf. 



a. Klang, Salangore, 25/7/79 ^ 



2. Semnopithecus siamensis, Miill. & Schl, 



a. " Interior of Malay peninsula, beyond Klang." 4/79. 

 A curious whitish specimen, far paler than usual, but apparently 

 ^ Tom. cit. p. 16G. 

 = J. A. S. B. XV. pp. 171 and 241. 

 As in the last list, all specimens to wbich no name is appended were 

 collected by Mr. .Davison. 



