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its tracks for a considerable distance in the high grass through which the animal 

 had made veritable tunnels but as the water was very deep we were not able to stalk as 

 silent as necessary and suddenly I heard the animal rushing away uttering a granting 

 note. 



To hunt Rhinoceros on elepliants-back is considered by the natives as impossible 

 because the Rhino will at once attack the elephant as soon as it gets wind of it. Ele- 

 phants are also said to be very afraid of the Rhinoceroses and would rim away as soon 

 as the Rhino is going to attack. 



Rhinoceros sondaicus. Cuv. 



This is apparently a more southern form being far niore common in the southern 

 districts than Rhinoceros sumatrensis Cuv. 



At two different occasions during my stay among the mountains in the Siamese 

 Malaya on about Lat. N. 12° I observed the tracks of a Rhinoceros probably belonging 

 to this species. They are, however, very shy and retiring in their habits, and are there- 

 fore seldom met with or shot especially by European sportsmen. 



Mr. C. G. Shortridge, however, succeeded in shooting a female specimen near 

 Bankachon in Southern Tenasserim. Bankachon is situated some distance south of the 

 places I visited, though on the other side of the Peninsula, and surrounded by dense ever- 

 green jungles. 



Tapirus indicus. Cuv. 



The Tapir or »Samset », as it is called in Siamese, occurs here and there on suitable 

 localities in the Siamese Malaya at last as far north as to about Lat. N. 13°. 



It is, however, nowhere common and keeps to the thickest and most impenetrable 

 jungles. 



According to the native hunters it is considered as one of the most difficult ani- 

 mals to track. Tapirs most often inhabit lowlying country but they do not avoid the lo- 

 wer hills as T have verified myself. During my stay among the mountains on the boun- 

 dary between Siarn and Tenasserim on about Lat. N. 12° I several times struck the 

 fresh tracks of tapirs in the densest parts of the evergreen forests which clothed the 

 neighbourhood of Hat Sanuk and Hue Sai, both small creeks running down to the Gulf 

 of Siarn. In these forests small saltlicks abound and the surroundings of these »nongs», 

 as they are called in Siamese, were favourable resorts for the tapirs, which frequently 

 came down to drink the water during the night-time. Though I several times waited 

 över these saltlicks during moonlight nights I never succeeded in getting a tapir, nor 

 did I hear any. 



Once I found a quite fresh resting-place of a tapir and when I told my natives hun- 

 ters that I wanted to follow the track they only shaked their heads telling me that it 

 was impossible to get near the animal. 



