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for their ivory to be an article of commerce, can have descended from 

 an imported stock. My principal informant on the subject, to whom 

 I have applied for what further information he may be able to 

 give me, is Capt. Mottley (at present of Akyab), brother of the na- 

 turalist whose name is associated with that of the Rev. Mr. Dillwyn 

 in Messrs. Mottley and Dillwyn's ' Fauna of Labuan' (and who pe- 

 rished with his family in the massacre at Banjermassing). Capt. 

 Mottley was long associated with his late brother, as he mentioned 

 to me in conversation, when I was at Akyab. In a paper on Borneo 

 published in the ' Singapore Chronicle' for December, 1824 (and re- 

 printed in Moor's ' Notices of the Indian Archipelago'), we are told 

 that—" Of land animals, there exist the Elephant, the Rhinoceros, 

 a species of Leopard [Felis macrocelis] — but not the royal Tiger," 

 &c. &c. " The first three animals, it is singular enough, are found 

 only in a single corner of this vast island, its northern peninsular 

 extremity, in the districts of Ungsang and Paitan. * * * The Ox 

 [Bos sondaicus], under the name of Tambadao, is a native of the 

 forests of Borneo ; and so is the Hog" [Sus barbates]. In a sketch 

 of Borneo, or Pulo Kcdamantan (the Malaj^an name of the entire 

 island, as distinguished from its province of Borneo), communicated 

 by J. Hunt, Esq., in 1812, to Sir T. S. Raffles, then Lieut.- Co vernor 

 of Java, (and also reprinted in Moor's ' Notices of the Indian Archi- 

 pelago,') it is stated that — " The Elephant was said to be seen about 

 Cape Unsing, where several teeth are still found ; but it is conceived 

 that this animal is extinct on the island." These are the only print- 

 ed notices that I can at present recal to mind, relative to the exist- 

 ence of Elephants in Borneo. 



The only species of Elephant, which, according to our present 

 knowledge, is known to inhabit India proper — as distinguished from 

 Indo-China and Malasia (or Malayana), — Prof. Schlegel designates 

 as the " so-called Elephas indicus ;" and he remarks, that, so far 

 as he " could discover, the greater number of Elephants brought to 

 Europe from continental India, have been obtained from Bengal. It 

 remains therefore a question," he adds, " whether all the Elephants 

 of continental India belong really to one species, or whether, in 

 these widely extended regions, there may not be different species of 

 Elephants, and the Elephant of trans-Cangetic India may not per- 

 haps belong to E. sumateanus. A similar question may be asked 





