OF THE PENINSULAR REGION. 33 



Colour brown but slightly paler below. Lips, cheeks from 

 eye to ear, sides of neck and throat whitish. Head and body 

 about 20 inches. 



Throughout the Peninsula and Singapore where it is the 

 commonest of the otters. 



42/ ;: Lute A SUMATRANA, Gray. The Hairy-nosed Malay 

 Otter. Blanford, p. 187. Anderson, Zool. Researches, 

 plates X-XII. 



Colour brown, the inner sides of limbs and side of head 

 and neck paler. Lips, chin and throat whitish, but the white 

 area not extending to the chest. Head and body about 30 inches. 



The Peninsula : Singapore and Langkawi Island. 



43/'' Lutra MACRODUS, Gray. The Large-toothed Smooth 

 Otter. Lutra ellioti, Blanford, p. 185. 



Colour brown, feet paler, abdomen whitish brown. Lips, 

 cheeks to eye, sides of neck, throat and chest whitish. Head 

 and body about 25 inches. 



The Peninsula. 



(Although Lutra vulgaris, the common otter, has been 

 included at times in the Peninsular fauna, there is no satis- 

 factory proof of its occurrence). 



Family URSID.E. 



(Bears). 



Genus IJRSUS. 



Feet large, plantigrade with naked soles ; claws long and 

 curved, non- retractile; ears small, rounded, hairy; tail very 

 short. 



44. Ursus MALAYANUS, Baffles. The Malay Bear. 

 Blanford, p. 199. 



Malay name " Bruang." 



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