218 NOTES. 
Notes from Sarawak Museum. 
On a Fossil Tooth found at Bau, Upper Sarawak. 
A molar tooth of the Indian elephant ( Elephas indicus) was 
recently found ina small cave at B J S К, Буа 
Chinaman, whilst washing for gold, and was handed over to me 
by Mr. Pawle of the Borneo Company, whose kindness in so do- 
ing, I beg to acknowledge here. The tooth i 
but since it was lying in a crevice in the li stone, not actually 
imbedded in rock, it is impossible to state with any degree of 
accuracy the exact horizon of the specimen. The limestone in 
gin, as shown by fossils collected by me; such characteristic 
shells as Cerithium and Limopsis being here abundant ; the form- 
ation is honeycombed with caves, many of which were carefully 
explored in 1878-9 by the late Mr. A. H. Everett. His results 
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Elephas indicus is included аз ап indigenous species; but there 
is little doubt that the few individuals now existing in North 
orneo nave sprung from some pairs which were introduced 
: ving man. 
These pairs were presented by a Sultan of Pahang to the Sultan 
of Brunei or Sulu (for on this point accounts differ), and after 
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worthy of note that the Kyans at the head of the Rejang and 
Baram rivers, areas in which tke rhinoceros and wild buffalo 
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