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in the Governor's house at Paehira, Siani ; they were said to have 

 been obtained in that province. 



The Banting is probably very rare in the Malay Peninsula: 

 Mr. H. N. Ridley told me one was killed by Mr. Oxley at Muar 

 about fifty years ago ; Mr. J. Rodger, C.M.G., has in his possession 

 a single horn, apparently of this species, obtained from a Sakei ; 

 and both Mr. Ridley and Mr. A. L. Butler tell me one was killed 

 recently in Perak. 



Distribution. Burma, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Java, Bali, Borneo, 

 and Sumatra ? 



144. Bos BUBAiUS Linn. The Buffalo. 



Bubalus arnee, Cantor, p. 65. 



Bos huhahts, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 491. 



" Khwai " of the Siamese. 



" Karbau " of the Malays. 



Cantor says :— " The wild Buffalo is reported, but apparently 

 without proof, to be indigenous in the Malayan Peninsula. 

 Domesticated it is very plentiful."' Ridley (J. 8. B. R. A. S. no. 25, 

 1894, p. 59) says it is very doubtful if the Buffalo occurs in a wild 

 state in Pahang. 



I was told, on good authority, that there are Buffaloes near 

 Pailin, in Siam, descendants of some that ran wild about fifty 

 years ago. 



Distribution. Wild in parts of India and Ceylon. Wild or feral 

 in parts of Burma, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. Domesticated 

 in Egypt, Italy, Southern Asia, and the Malay Islands. 



145. Xemorhmebus scmatrensis (Shaw). Goat-Antelope. 



Ncemorhedus sumatrensis, Cantor, p. 04. 



Nemorhoedus sumatrensis, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 514. 



" Leea'ngpah " or " Ooarpar " of the Siamese. 



; ' Ivambing utan " or " Ivambing gran " of the Malays. 



" Black Mountain-goat "* of the English in the Straits Settle- 

 ments. 



Cantor says " it appears to be numerous on the Malayan 

 Peninsula, but exceedingly difficult to obtain, as it frequents the 

 steepest hilly localities, and is very shy and active." 



W. L. Sclater (Cat. Mamm. Indian Mus. ii. 1891, p. 151) records 

 a skull from Province Wellesley. 



Ridley, writing on the Mammals of Pahang (J. S. B. R. A. S. 

 no. 25, 1894, p. 60), remarks : "This wild goat is supposed to occur 

 in the high mountains of the interior, but there is no record of its 

 having been obtained" ; and (Nat. Science, vi. 1895, p. 163) says 

 it " inhabits the isolated patches of limestone rocks which flank at 

 intervals the main granite chain of the Peninsula. Though 

 apparently not rare in these places, it has never been shot by any 

 sportsman." 



In the Museum at Taiping there is a stuffed head from near 



