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NILS GYLDENSTOLPE, THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONS TO SIAM. 



In the parts of Northern Siam visited by the Expedition the Crab-eating Mun- 

 goose was never met with, though it probably occurs. Outside Siamese territory it has 

 been recorded from the South-eastern Himalayas, Assam, Burma and China but has 

 not been obtained in the southern parts of the Malay Peninsula, nor did Pobinson & 

 Kloss meet with it during their recent trip to the Siamese Province of Bandon. 



Skull measurements 



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Greatest length 98,0 mm. 



Basicranial length i 91,9 » 



Condylobasal length 97,5 » 



Zygomatic width 53,1 » 



Width of brain case 34,9 » 



Length of nasals mesially ! 21,3 » 



Greatest breadth of nasals 11,5 



Least interorbital width 20,5 » 



Length of palate from henselion . . 51,2 » 



Least postorbital width I 13,2 » 



Breadth of palate betwen sectorials 15,0 » 



101,6 mm. 101,0 mm. 



92,3 

 97,5 

 53,5 

 35,6 

 18,8 

 10,0 

 18,5 

 52,3 

 16,0 

 15,5 



91,6 

 97,0 

 54,3 



37,2 



10,2 

 19,2 

 51,6 

 17,0 

 14,2 



97.0 mm. 



90.1 » 



95.2 » 



54.3 » 



10,2 

 20,0 

 51,5 

 16,5 

 15,1 



20,0 

 10,5 

 18,7 

 51,8 

 15,5 

 15,3 



Felis tigris. Linn. 



The Tiger is generally distributed throughout the whole of Siarn though nowhere 

 very abundant. It occurs, however, as well in the mountainous regions of the North 

 as in the southern districts. 



At the neighbourhood of Pa Hing, a small village some distance south-east of Chieng 

 Mai, the tigers were fairly abundant at the time of my visit and numbers of fresh tracks 

 were seen at several occasions. 



In the Siamese Malaya I only observed their tracks a few times among the moun- 

 tains on the boundary to Tenasserim as for instance at the neighbourhood of Hat Sanuk. 



North of the town of Nakorn Lampang a man-eating tiger had done a lot of damage 

 until it was shot by one of the natives. It turned out to be a very old male which had 

 its teeth almost Avorn off. 



mm. 

 mm. 



Felis pardus variegata. Wagn. 



5 Koh Lak, Siamese Malaya, 19 /is 1914. — Nose to vent = 995 mm.; :ail = 595 mm.; ear 

 $ Hat Sanuk, near the boundary between Siam and Tenasserim, s % 1915. — Nose to vent = 

 $ Hat Sanuk 22 / 2 1915. — Nose to vent = 1000 mm.; tail = 635 mm. 



= 80 

 1270 



Leopards were apparently not very common in the parts of Northern Siam visited 

 during my last journey and their tracks were only observed at a few occasions. In the 

 Siamese Malaya, however, and especially along the Tenasserim börder these beasts were 



