1900.] MAMMALS OE SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA. 365 



many as twenty to thirty may frequently be seen." W. L. Sclater 

 (Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. ii. 1891, p. 104) records a specimen from 

 Malacca. Eidley (Nat. Science, vi. 1895, p, 94) says :— " The Brush- 

 tailed Porcupine (Atherura macrura) is not a native of Singapore, 

 so far as is known ; it inhabits the limestone caves in Pahang," This 

 probably refers to the animals which Eidley (J. S. B. B. A. S. no. 

 25, Jan. 1894, p. 59), in his " List of Mammals recorded from 

 Pahang,'' says were " caught in the Kota Glangga caves,'* but he 

 then called them " Hystricc longicauda, Marsden." The Baffles 

 Museum possesses a specimen from Malacca. The Museum at 

 Taiping contains four stuffed individuals from Larut, Perak. The 

 Museum at Kuala Lumpor contains one specimen without locality. 

 Distribution. Burma, Malay Peninsula (Kedah, Penang, Perak, 

 Malacca, Pahang), Sumatra, Java ; Borneo ? 



Family Leporid^;. 



137. Lepus sp. inc. Hare. 



A hare occurs in Siam, but I do not know of what species : I 

 saw one caught alive at Genkoi (between Ayuthia and Korat), 

 21st November, 1897, and a leveret that had been caught near 

 Chantaboon, January 1898. 



Order PE0B0SCIDEA. 

 Family Elephantine. 



138. Elephas maximus L. The Indian Elephant. 

 Elephas indicus, Cantor, p. 52. 



Elephas maximus, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 463; S. Flower, 

 Journ. Bombay N. H. S. vol. xi. no. 2, p. 335 (1897). 



" Gajah " of the Malays. 



" Chang " of the Siamese. 



In the Eoyal Siamese Museum there was a life-size model of a 

 male Siamese Elephant, and a most magnificent collection of about 

 seventy tusks, all, so far as I could ascertain, from Siam; forty of 

 these tusks are over 4 feet 8 inches (1420 mm.) in length. 



The Selangor Museum contains six or seven skulls of local 

 elephants. 



Wild elephants do not occur in either Penang or Singapore, nor 

 are tame ones employed there ; but on the continent, both in Siam 

 and the Malay Peninsula, elephants are found wild in suitable 

 localities, and are trained for various purposes. Personally I only 

 once came on wild elephants, a party of four, near the Bangpakong 

 Eiver, in March 1897; but in June 1897 we observed over a hundred 

 wild ones caught in the Kraal at Ayuthia. I saw more or less 

 trained elephants in Bangkok, Ayuthia, Chantaboon, Kedah, and 

 Perak, but in the Southern Malay States the people do not seem 

 to catch and tame them. H. J. Kelsall (J. S. B. E. A. S. no. 26, 



