194 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Aug, 



The Natural History Secretary read the following : — 



II. Notes on rare and little known Malayan mammals and birds , 

 by Dr. Maingay. 



1. Gavceus Gaurus. 



The first specimen I bring to the notice of the Society is one 

 of a frontlet of the Malayan bison, an animal well known to the 

 Malays under the name of Sladang and described as of very large 

 size, and more formidable when wounded than the tiger. It is found 

 in the dense jungles around the base of Mount Ophir and the Kambou 

 hills, and, no doubt, extends along the bases of the hilly ranges which 

 form the axis of the Peninsula, as far as Tennasserim or Bnrmah. 



It must not be confounded with the Bos Sondaicus, also found in 

 similar localities and distinguished by the Malays under the local 

 name of Sapi or Sapiontan. The Sladang is now very rarely found 

 within the Malacca territory, and the animal from which the frontlet 

 was taken, was the only one of which I have been able to obtain any 

 record as having been killed within the British boundary for the last 

 thirty years. It was a very old solitary male, and was wounded by a 

 Malay, who immediately on firing ran away, and the body of the 

 animal, in an advanced stage of decomposition, was found, some days 

 after, at a distance from the place where it had been wounded. Not 

 being able personally to visit the spot, I only succeeded in procuring 

 the frontlet. 



The measurements* in my specimen are as follows : Between the 

 tips of the horns, 21 inches ; breadth of forehead along frontal ridge, 

 9^- inches ; circumference of horn at base, 15^ inches ; from base to tip 

 round outer curve, 23^- inches. I have also measured a pair of horns, 

 at present in the possession of a gentleman at Malacca, which measure 

 no less than 28^- inches along the outer curve, with a longitudinal 

 diameter of 7, and a transverse one of 3^ inches, or exactly 2 to 1. 



2. Pelicanus Phillijppensis, apud Jerdon, Birds of India. 



This is the only form of Pelican I have as yet met with in the 

 Straits — I refer to the above species as described by Jerdon ; it generally 

 appears in large flocks and at irregular intervals. 



The following are the notes and measurements drawn up from two 

 specimens, male and female, in my own collection. 



* See Dr. Jerdon' s Mammals of India, p. 303. 



