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presented by Mr, Ridley in 1891. The Malay Sambar ranges 
from Assam, Burma and the Malay Peninsula io Sumatra and 
Borneo. How far C, hippelitpfius, from Java, C. hrookei, from 
Borneo, and the several species which are described from the 
Philippines, differ from it, is a difficult question to decide. 
Very much different is the Thamin {Cervus cldi) with its 
^ bow-shaped antlers, frotn Burma and Siam. Several pairs of 
antlers are exhibited, one of them from Lower Burma, 
presented by Mr, C. Landsberg in 1897, and one from Stam, 
presented by Mr. H. P. Kaka in 1905. 
A very pretty beast is the Muntjac or Barking Deer, 
Cerviihts tnufiijac, the Kijang of the Malays. Its English name 
is due to its hoarse and bark -like cry. It is a small deer, only 
about 20 to 22 inches in height, with a fur of a beautiful deep 
chestnut colour and short and two-pointed antlers which rest on 
long and slender bony stalks. The males have long tusks in the 
upper jaw. It is widely distributed from India, Burma, Indo- 
China and the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra, Java and Borneo. 
There is a stuffed doe in the Museum, and two skeletons, 
buck and doe. 
The Mouse-deer or Chevrotains are the smallest of hoofed 
mammals. They differ from the true deer by having no antlers 
and by possessing four complete digits in each foot, of which 
the two middle ones, however, are much the larger ones. They 
resemble the Musk-deer of the Himalayas by the presence of 
upper tusks which especially in the male may be of considerable 
length.— There are two well-established species of this Mouse- 
deer in the Malay region, whilst a few dozen of local races have 
in recent years been described from the smaller islands round 
about here. The larger of those two is the " Napu ' of the 
Malays, Tragnlus napu, of smoky-grey cobur, The skeleton 
shows the above-mentioned tusks well, they are quite l^/i inches 
in length. Somewhat smaller is the ' Kanchil ' or ' Pelandok ' 
of the Malays [Tragulus javanicus), the * Brer Rabbit ' of Malay 
folk-lore, of greyish rufous colour. These two species have 
much the same geographical distribution, Indo-China, 
Tenasserim, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and Borneo, 
The Malayan Pigs may be classed into three groups. 
The first group includes the Indian Pig and the Banded Pig. 
The former {Sits crislatus, frequently miscalled Sus indkus), the 
'Babi utan ' of the Malays, is th<? only wild pig of the Malay 
Peninsula and is still common enough on Singapore island. It 
also occurs all over India and Ceylon, but not in Sumatra, Java 
and Borneo. It is distinguished by a crest of long bristles 
