Short Notes, 

 Note on the Wild Goat of the Malay Peninsula. 



An adult male of Nemorrhoedus sumatrensis var Swetten- 

 hami was taken alive on the sea coast at Batu in the Kuala 

 Langat district of Selangor last April (1905). The surround- 

 ing country is quite flat, the solitary granite hill of Jugra, 

 the nearest high hill being some sixteen miles away. Wild 

 goats have not been heard of on this hill. It may be that 

 this goat was driven from the interior by some rival and 

 wandered down to the coast. It was driven with the sea by 

 the Penghulu's dogs and has since been in captivity, the 

 animal is becoming quite tame. 



Henry Norman. 



Habits of the Tupaia. 



The common little Tupaia, (T. ferruginea) seems to be 

 quite omnivorous in its habits. In the Journal No. XXIX 

 p. 148, I mentioned that it ate considerable quantities of 

 fruit, although it belongs to the order tinsectivora. Recently 

 I saw one chasing a bull-frog (Callula pulchra) along a garden 

 path. The frog puffed out as usual when alarmed and hopped 

 along as fast as it could, the Tupaia trying to catch it by 

 the leg. Another Tupaia ran out of the wood, and drove 

 off the first one, and began to chase the frog, finally catching 

 it in its mouth and darting away with it into the wood. 

 The frog when alarmed exudes a very sticky liquid from" 

 its back, and apparently the Tupaias either could not or 

 were unwilling to seize it by the back, and tried to catch 

 it by the leg, but appeared to have some difficulty in so doing. 



H. N. Ridley. 



Jour. Straits Branch, R. A.. Soc, No 45, 1905 



