Malayan Pigs, 



A Recent Zoological Paper. 

 G. S, Miller's " Notes on Malayan Pigs." 



By C. Boden Kloss, f. z. s. 



One of the most recent of publications dealing wiih the 

 fauna of the Oriental region is a most interesting and valuable 

 paper by Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, which throws a fresh light on 

 the varieties and distribution of the pigs of the Malayan area. 



"Notes on Malayan Pigs" * is based on a quite unique 

 collection of 62 specimens from the Malayan Peninsula and 

 Islands, presented to the U. S. National Museum by Dr. W. 

 L. Abbott, and a small contribution of 4 specimens obtained in 

 Johore by myself. In addition to having all this material to 

 work upon Mr. Miller has also examined the types and collec- 

 tions in the Natural History Museums at Berne, Berlin, Leyden 

 and London. 



Excluding the Javan species (as not being yet represented 

 in the U. S. N. M. collection) the pigs of Western Malaya are 

 broadly defined as belonging to one or the other of three groups 

 typified as the Barbatus group, the Cristatus group and the 

 Vittatus group. 



In the first group, the " bearded pigs," of greatest local 

 interest perhaps is Sits oi> Miller, the species which occurs in 

 the Sumatran area, and is, so far ? known from the swampy 

 plains of south-eastern Sumatra, from Banka and from the 

 Bhio Archipelago, where, inhabiting Pulo Battam, it most 

 closely approaches the Straits Settlements. 



The other members are Sus barbatus, Mttller, of Borneo, 

 with which Mr. Miller finds Sus longirostris, Nehring, to be 



* Proceedings of The United States National Museum, Vol. XXX 

 pages 737-758, with Plates XXXIX— LXIV. 



Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc, No. 49, 1907. 



