364 MR. STANLEY S. FLOWED, ON THE [Apr. 3, 



Museum three stuffed specimens from Siam of a species of Bamboo- 

 Rat : they bad been labelled (probably by the late Dr. E. Haase) 

 R. badius, but they looked to me more like the young of 

 R. sumatrensis. 



Distribution. Parts of Burma, Siam, and Malay Peninsula. 



Family Hysteicid.e. 



135. Hysteix longicauda Marsden. The Malay Porcupiue. 



Hystrix longicauda, Cantor, p. 48. 



" Landak " or " Babi Landak " (i. e. pig-porcupine) of the Malays. 



Cantor records this species from the Malay Peninsula, and says 

 it "is numerous, and, as it is considered a delicacy by the Chinese 

 population, is frequently brought to market." Ridley (Nat. 

 Science, vi. 1895, p. 94) calls this species Hystrix leucura, and 

 says of it : — " The Porcupine is still common in Singapore, but 

 a number must be destroyed by the burning of the open country, 

 in which they chiefly live. The are very destructive to the pine- 

 apples." The Museum at Taiping contains a specimen from Larut, 

 Perak. The Museum at Kuala Lumpor contains one young 

 porcupine, apparently of this species, locality unknown but prob- 

 ably from Selangor. 



On the 14th Oct. 1897, 1 bought a live porcupine from a Malay 

 in Singapore, who said it had been caught on Bukit Timah ; it 

 soon became tame and an interesting pet. (It is still alive with 

 me, February 1900.) 



Distribution. Malay Peninsula (Perak, Selangor, Singapore), 

 Sumatra, Java ?, Borneo ? 



In the Siamese Museum there were two stuffed Porcupines, 

 both labelled " Siam," representing apparently two species, but 

 I do not know" which : one with a pale brown forehead and a 

 light crest had been labelled by some one u H. betigalensis ;" the 

 other had no crest, and had an old label " H. hodgsoni." 



The Siamese call a porcupine " inenn." 



136. Athebuea macetjea (Linn.). The Asiatic Brush-tailed 

 Porcupine. 



Atlwura fasciculata, Cantor, p. 49. 



Aiherura macrura, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 446, fig. 146. 



"Landak" of the Malays. 



" Landak-woobi " of the Malays of Selangor (A.L. Butler). 



Diard and Duvaucel in 1821 (Miscell. Papers Indo-China, 2nd 

 series, vol. ii. p. 208, 1887) speak of this species as " the porcupine 

 of Queda" (i. e. Kedah), and say it " always carries its tail lifted up 

 like a trumpet, and makes the tuft at the end tremble." Cantor 

 records this species from Penang and the Peninsula, and says it 

 ." is very numerous in the Malayau valleys and hills. In its fretful 

 habits and in its food it resembles the preceding porcupine, like 

 which, it is carried to the markets at Pinang and Malacca, where as 



