1900.] MAMMALS OF S1AM AND THE MALAX PENINSULA. 323 



no. 25, p. 57) says it " appears to be widely distributed, especially in 

 tbe low country, disappearing in the hills." In Perak tigers occur 

 from sea-level to the mountain jungles ; Wray (J. S. B. E. A. S. 

 1890, no. 21, pp: 129, 138, 146) mentions them in the Larut 

 Hills at over 4000 feet, and in the Batang Padang mountains at 

 6700 feet above sea-level. Bound the town of Taiping, the capital 

 of Perak, tigers are particularly numerous, living largely on the 

 pigs kept by the Chinese. t I have seen, a few hours after the occur- 

 rence, where a tiger burst through the wall of a house and carried 

 off a pig, to the horror of a Chinaman who was in the room at the 

 time. In Selangor also the tiger is over-plentiful. Kelsall (J. S. 

 B. B. A. S. 1894, no. 26, p. 16) says they are "reported to be 

 plentiful everywhere (in the State of Johore), especially on the 

 Indau and at Batu Pahat." Dr. Wilson (Principal Medical 

 Officer, Johore) informed me that about 1889 a tiger was caught 

 at Muar which measured 12 feet from nose to tip of tail. 



In Siam the tiger apparently is not found in the delta of the 

 Menam, near Bangkok, nor in the valley of the Bangpakong, but 

 from all accounts they are numerous in the Dong Phya Fai, 

 especially at Pakchom on the Korat side. 



Habits. Some idea of the Malay tiger and its ways may be 

 gathered from the following well-written accounts : — 



A. B. Wallace, ' Malay Archipelago,' p. 18 (1869). 



H. N. Bidley, " Mammals Malay Peninsula," Nat. Science, vol. vi. 

 pp. 89-91 (1895). 



P. A. Swettenham, ' Malay Sketches,' pp. 12-18 (1896). 



H. Clifford, 'East Coast Etchings,' pp. 142-154 (1896). 



Distribution. Central and South-eastern Continental Asia and 

 Sumatra and Java. 



17. Felis pardtjs L. The Leopard or Panther. 



Felis leopardus, Cantor, p. 35. 



Felis pardus, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 67; Bidley, Mamm. 

 Malay Pen., Nat. Science, vol. vi. 1895, p. 91. 



Spotted Variety : " Bimau bintang " (Starred Tiger) of the 

 Malays. 



Black Variety : 



"Bimau kumbang " (Black-beetle Tiger) of the Malays. 

 " Bimau akar " (Tiger of the Lianas) according to Bidley. 



Cantor says : " The leopards of the Malayan Peninsula appear 

 to attain to a larger size, and to be more ferocious, than is 

 generally the case in India. Instances of their having killed and 

 carried off Malays are on record." Bidley, on the other hand, 



states : " It is quite harmless to man unless wounded The 



more slender form, commonly called the leopard in opposition 

 to the short thick panther, is said to occur in the Peninsula ; " 

 and also (J. S. B. E. A. S. 1894, no. 25, p. 57) : " There are two 

 distinct forms, one, which includes the black panther, being 

 much more thick-set and heavy-looking than the typical leopard, 

 and the spots are usually rings and not rosettes as in that 

 animal." 



