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Gen. — Lutra, Storr. 

 Lutra Nair, Fred. Cuvier. 

 Syn. — Lutra indica, Gray. 



" Anjing Ayer" of the Malays of the Peninsula. 

 Hab. — Malayan Peninsula. 



China, Bombay, South Mahratta Country. 



Lutra Barang, Raffles. 

 Syn. — " Barang Barang" or " Ambrang," Raffles. 



Lutra leptonyx, Wagner, apud Schinz. 



Lutra Simung, Schinz ?* 



" Mumrang" or " Amrang" of the Malays of the Peninsula. 

 Hab, — Malayan Peninsula. 



Sumatra, Borneo. 

 The young are very playful, and soon become sufficiently domestica- 

 ted to roam about the house, and to appear when called. Its voice is a 

 short shrill whistling, not unlike the sound of the cricket, but stronger. 

 Its food is not confined to fishes and Crustacea ; birds and insects are 

 equally relished. The muzzle is hairy, but in the old animal the hairs 

 become rubbed off". The Malayan individuals appear to attain to a 

 greater size than the Sumatran, described by Raffles. An old male 

 measured from the apex of the nose to the root of the tail two feet eight 

 and a half inches ; the tail one foot eight inches. In a young male two 

 feet and two inches, and the tail one foot two-eighth of an inch in 

 length, the simple intestinal canal measured nine feet and one inch, with 

 a circumference throughout of about two and two-eighth inches. No 

 caecum. Each of the kidneys consisted of ten loosely connected glands. 



Aonyx, Lesson, 



Aonyx leptonyx, Gray : List. 



Syn. — Lutra leptonyx, Horsfield. 

 Lutra cinerea, Illiger. 



* In Schinz's diagnosis of Lutra Simung is said " ungvibus robustis falcularibus," 

 ("die Nagel an den Zehen sind stark und gekrummt") which if the passage refers 

 to Lutra leptonyx, Horsfield, must be a mistake, as the original diagnosis expressly 

 states " ungvibus brevibus sublamnaribus." As Schinz describes Lutra Barang 

 " ungvibus minutissimis obtusis" Lutra leptonyx is probably meant, and thus the one 

 species is mistaken for the other. 



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