1900.J MAMMALS OF SIAM AND THE MALAt PENINSULA. 333 



Family Hr^NiDiE. 



Cantor (p. 27) says a Hysena is reported to occur in the Malay 

 Peninsula, but no Englishman nor native I have met has heard of 

 it there or in Siam. 



Family Canid^. 



43. Canis familiabis L. The Dog. 



Owing to the exertions of the Police authorities, pariah dogs 

 are fortunately very scarce in the Straits Settlements nowadays. 

 It is far otherwise in Siam ; the miserable, maimed, and mangy 

 pariahs which, together with pigs, vultures, and crows, are the 

 scavengers of Bangkok, are a feature of the place. In the suburbs 

 and country villages the dogs are less diseased, and I have two or 

 three times seen specimens remarkably jackal-like in appearance, 

 but have never seen or heard of true jackals in Siam. These 

 ownerless dogs, or at any rate some of them, run about at night 

 in packs, hunting for their food. 



44. Cton rutilans (S. Mull.). The Malay Wild Dog. 



Cuon jwimcevus, Cantor, p. 26. 



Cyon rut-Vans, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 147 ; Bidley, Nat. 

 Science, vol. vi. 1 895, p. 94. 



" Anjing utan" (Dogs of the woods) of the Malays. 



" Srigalah" of the Malays of Perak (according to L. Wray). 



The wild dog seems quite unknown in Penang and Singapore, 

 but is distributed through the less settled parts of the Peninsula. 

 In the Museum at Taiping there is a specimen from Kuala Kangsar, 

 Perak : and in the Raffles Museum are specimens from Pahang and 

 Mt. Ophir. Consul T. ff. Carlisle, writing to me from Pailin in 

 the Battambong province of Siam in February 1899, says : " Wild 

 dogs are said to be plentiful in parts of this province. I am 

 trying to get one. I have been told there are two kinds." 



Distribution. Siam (?), Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, 

 Java, Borneo (?). 



Family Mustelid^e. 



Subfamily Musteline. 



45. Mtjstela flayigula Bodd. The Indian Marten. 

 Mustela fiavigula, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 158. 



" Anga Prao " of the Malays of the Peninsula (according to 

 Cantor). 



Cantor (p. 24) records this species from the Malay Peninsula. 

 In the Museum at Kuala Lumpor there is a specimen caught on 

 a coffee estate about seven miles from Kuala Lumpor. 



Distribution. Himalayas from Ilazara to Assam, hills of Southern 

 India, Ceylon (?), Amurland, South China, Burma, Malay Penin- 

 sula, Sumatra, Java(?). 



