NOTES. 213 
Since describing in this Journal the two Bornean skins as a 
new subspecies, Mydaus javanensis montanus, I have examined a 
third imperfect skin from the Sarawak Museum. It was obtained 
from the Kalabits of the ulu Baram and almost certainly comes 
from the same locality as the other two. Unfortunately the 
Kalabits have made it up as a seat-mat for their own use and 
consequently cut it down considerably; only the back remains, 
the head, legs and tail having been cut off. It measures 19 
inches by 104 at the widest part. A comparison of the whitish 
dorsal marking shows that it must have been similar in size to the 
other two. The white streak is 3 inches across at the widest, then 
narrows abruptly and breaks off completely for 8 inches before 
continuing as a very thin line for another 4 inches, after which it 
widens to the extent of 2 inches across the lumbar region. 
The length of the skin from the widest part of the dorsal 
streak between the shoulders to the root of the tail is 16$ to 17 
inches in all three skins. 
The skin representing the Type of this new subspecies has 
been deposited in the British Museum. The second and third 
skins remain in the Raffles Museum, Singapore, and the Sarawak 
Museum respectively. No others are as yet known. 
J. C. Mouton. 
A Rail New to the Malay Peninsula. 
While arranging and naming the collection of Bird skins 
which have accumulated in the Raffles Museum during the last 
thirty years, an interesting discovery by which another species is 
added to the list of Birds known to occur in the Malay Peninsula 
was made by Mrs. Horton, who has already done much valuable 
work on the bird collections of this Museum. Among the mass 
of unidentified material stored away was the skin of a Rail 
bearing the following label: “ Kotta Tinggi, Johore. Dec. 18th 
1892. Sex female.” This skin proved to be that of Elwes’ Crake, 
(Porzana bicolor Walden). 
This Crake was first procured by Captain Elwes in the in- 
terior of Sikkim at an elevation of 5,900 feet, in September 1870. 
Godwin-Austen found it in rice-fields about 5,000 feet up in the 
Khasi Hills in the month of June. Hume says he is sure he saw 
this species below Hoondoong at a height of 3,500 feet. It was 
obtained later by Collingwood Ingram in 1906 in the Lichiang 
Valley, West Yunnan, South China. 
R. A. Soc., No. 85, 1922. 
