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him in Calcutta, " were certainly smaller than those of India," the animals 

 which he had seen in Upper Pegu appeared to him to he ahout the same size 

 as those which he had seen in former hunting days in India. That Pigs are 

 inimical to snakes is well known ; hut Mason mentions that he has seen the 

 head of a Python " that was killed by a drove of hogs, whose whole length 

 measured eighteen feet." "Whether wild or tame does not matter, but that 

 author repeatedly uses the word "drove" in connexion with wild animals, 

 even rats. It is a remarkable fact (if quite trustworthy) that a number 

 of Hogs should thus combine to destroy a large Python. 



Fam. Tragulidae. 

 Chevrotains. 

 114. Teagtous kanchil. 

 Moschus kanchil, Kaffles. Yung* (Mason). 



This small Chevrotain, or "Mouse-Deer," with a medial black stripe on 

 the chest, is common in the southern Tenasserim provinces, and extends 

 throughout the Malayan peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo ; but in Java it 

 appears to be replaced by the equally diminutive T. javanicus {T. pelandoc, 

 Blyth).f In Cambodja and Cochin-China there is a race which chiefly differs 

 from T. kanchil in wanting the medial dark stripe on the chest (T. affinis, 

 Gray) ;J and the island of Hainan, it is remarked by Mr. Swinhoe, "produces 

 a Mouse Deer, which I have made out to be Tragulus meminna.% The 

 latter can hardly be, for that species {Meminna indica] is elsewhere un- 

 known eastward of the Bay of Bengal. There is, again, a Chevrotain 

 much larger than the T. kanchil, which seems to be generally diffused over 

 the Malay countries, the T. napu, "F. Cuvier, which is not unlikely to occur 

 in South Tenasserim ; and what are probably local races of T. napu have 

 been described as T. stanleyanus and T. fuscatus, the pyrrhous T. stanleyanus 

 having been erroneously supposed to inhabit Ceylon. Meminna indica is the 

 only species of Chevrotain that inhabits Ceylon and the Indian peninsula; 

 and throughout the Malay countries there are the larger T. napu and its 

 subordinate races, and — except in Java — the smaller T. kanchil (to which 

 T. affinis should perhaps be subordinated), with T. javanicus in Java only. 

 The T. kanchil is the only one, so far as hitherto ascertained, that ranges 

 northward into British Burma, and in the Malayan peninsula it is much 

 more abundant than the T. napu. 



* The same name which he assigns to Zepus peguensis. 



t J. A. S. B. xxvii. p. 277. 



% P. Z. S. 1861, p. 138. § ibid. 1870, p. 644.- 



