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secret. Опе day his camp was discovered by a Raja who noticed а 
tungku of gold on the fire, and Raja-like immediately appropriated 
it. For this he was struck by the owner, a Korinchi man, who the 
exercised his powers, turned into a ie and patrolled Jerai for 
With regard to the Korinchi I was told that there are two streams, 
very difficult to diseover, which join, one being clear and one muddy. 
Water must be taken from both, the muddy on being applied to the 
its former state, the power being lost when the su pply of water is 
exhausted. 
FRED. W. IRBY. 
"TarrriNa, 28th April, 1894. 
FOSSIL TOOTH OF ELEPHAS NAMADICUS 
FROM PERAK 
ear. of an elephant’s tooth, which was found in Tan Ong 
Peng’s mine, opposite the old Police Station at Salak, Kuala 
Kangsar, at a depth of 12 feet from the surface, and which was pre- 
t 
Geological Department of the British Museum, for examination. ia 
a letter dated 18th July he writes, * The tooth is а molar, proba 
upper of Elephas namadicus, Falconer and Cantley, a species found i in 
the Nabada beds of India, and probably of Pleistocene age. This 
species has already been found in Burma and at Bukit Basar, 
Nawngchik." 
Respecting d last-named specimen the following note by Dr. 
Andrews appears in Messrs. N. Annandale and H. C. Robinson's 
Fascieuli tr маа Zoology, Part II, page 307: 
“ The tooth on which Dr. Andrews has been kind enough to write 
the following note was found by a native on Bukit Besar, Nawngchik, 
and sold to us at Ban Sai Kau 
“ This specimen seems to be of земени interest on account o 
the locality in wbich it was found. It is an upper molar of Elephas 
namadicus, a species found in the dens Siwalik beds, particularly in 
the Nabada valley. I have also received remains of this animal from 
Burma йк: Mandalay) quite ие тя never from further south. 
urse the S о осе 
y сазе, the oce 
Peninsula helps to bridge over one of the gaps in the area over which 
the Siwalik fauna extended. 
“The age of E. namadicus was probably late Pliocene or early 
Pleistocene," 
