1875.] 



Dugong and Pangolins. 



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This is the ordinary two-horned Rhinoceros of the Tenasserim pro- 

 vinces, extending into Siam, and southward throughout the Malayan 

 peninsula and Sumatra ; but in Borneo there would appear to be a still 

 smaller species, which is referred to the same by Professor H. Schlegel. 

 How far northward its range extends has not been ascertained, but I suspect 

 that it does not occur in Arakan. A Ehinoceros of some kind inhabits the 

 province of Quang-si, in China, in lat. 15 deg. 1ST., as noticed by Du Halde. 

 In general, this is an exceedingly shy and timid animal, but it has been known 

 to attack the night-fires of travellers, as happened once to Professor Oldham. 

 In this case the animal was shot, and its skull is now in the Museum of 

 Trinity College, Dublin, where I have verified it as appertaining to the 

 present species. For remarks on this and the preceding species, vide Ann. 

 M. N. H. (4), vol. x. (1872), p. 399. Lieutenant Newbold noticed the 

 existence of the "Badok, or Sumatran Rhinoceros" in the Malayan peninsula 

 in 1838.* 



Order SYBENIA. 

 Fam. Hallcoridse. 



128. Haltcoee dugoito (240). 



Trichechus dugong, Erxleben, F. Cuvier, Mamm. Lithog. ii. 120; Zool. Aristolabe, 

 Atlas, t. 27. 



The Malayan Dugoug. Mason records that the existence of this animal 

 in the Mergui archipelago was brought to his notice by the late Rev. S. 

 Benjamin in 1853. It is occasionally obtained by the Andaman Islanders. 

 Finlayson strangely asserts that in this animal "a single spiraculum opens 

 near the top of the head." 



Fam. Manidae. 

 Pangolins. 



*129, Pangoli^us letjctjeus. 

 Manis lucurus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 454; xvi. p. 1274. Theu-khwce-ghyal, Mason. 

 Burmese Pangolin. Ranges from Arakan to Mergui, and is probably 

 the species " closely allied to javaniem" observed by Dr. Anderson near 

 Bhamo. From Malacca I have only seen the P.javanicus, Desmarest, and it 

 is probable that P. auritus, Hodgson, 1836 {Manis dalmanni, Sundevall, 

 1842, M. multiscutata, Gray, 1843), occurs to the northward. From Cam- 

 bodja Dr. Gray gives P. pentadactyla (Pangolinus typus). 



* Madras Journ. Lit. Sc. vii. p. 70. 



