324 MR. STANLEY S. FLO WEB ON THE [Ap r> % 



Localities : — 



Slam. The spotted leopard occurs ; while I was at the Museum 

 in Bangkok two specimens were brought there in the flesh to 

 be skinned, but neither had any history. Mr. St. Stephen, 

 Manager of the Bawtong Mines, Kabin, told me he had once 

 seen a panther near the mines. 



Kedah. Both the spotted and black varieties occur — the latter 

 appears to be most numerous — and are often trapped and ex- 

 ported to Penang, and thence sent to menageries in Europe and 

 America. 



Penang. So far as I can ascertain, there are no wild leopards 

 on the island, but individuals from Kedah have occasionally 

 escaped of late years to my knowledge ; one attacked and wounded 

 a native policeman on duty in Georgetown about 1S96. 



Province Wellesley. An English Officer of Police told me he had 

 shot a black panther in the Province about 1896. 



Perak. In the Museum at Taiping there is a spotted leopard 

 from Larut, and black ones from Larut and from Kuala Kangsar. 

 Ridley says the spotted form " appears to be fairly common in 

 Perak and the northern part of the Peninsula." 



Selangor. Mr. A. L. Butler, Curator of the Museum at Kuala 

 Lumpor, tells me 99 per cent, of the leopards in Selangor are 

 black. Personally I have not heard of a spotted one from any 

 State south of Perak. 



Pahang. Occurrence recorded by Ridley (J. S. B. R. A. S. 1894, 

 no. 25, p. 57). 



Malacca. Cantor records a black male killed at Malacca, which 

 " measured from the nose to the root of the tail 4 ft. 4| in. (about 

 1333 mm.), the tail 2 ft. 10| in. (about 886 mm.)." 



Johore. Ridley says : " The Black Panther is abundant in Johore, 

 and formerly occurred in Pulau TIbin, between Singapore and 

 Johore." 



Singapore. Ridley says the Black Panther " is said to have 

 occurred in Singapore, but this appears doubtful." 



Distribution. Africa and Asia in suitable places. 



18. Felis nebulosa Griffith. The Clouded Leopard. 



Felis nebulosa, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamin. p. 72. 



"Clouded Tiger" of the English in Siam. 



This beautiful animal must be very rare in the Malay Peninsula ; 

 and in Siam but little is known of it, except the handsome skins 

 which are sometimes brought by natives from upcountry to be 

 sold in Bangkok. 



Distribution. South-eastern Himalayas, Assam, Burma, Siam, 

 Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Formosa (apud 

 Blanf ord). 



Dr. Hanitsch (Rep. Raffles Libr. & Mus. 1898, p. 7) says he 

 obtained " from a native a full-grown specimen of Felis nebidosa 

 (body 36 in., tail 30 in.), said to have been killed at Changi, near 

 Singapore." 



