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Benml Biirm:i, Tenasserim and the Miilay Peninsula tu Java, 
Sumatra and Borneo. Unfortunately the Museum does not yet 
possess a specimen of it— The Hairy-eared Sumatran Rhino- 
ceros or Badak kerbau i Rkhmcero.'^ siwmtri>nsis} has two horns, but 
no small incisors between the lower tusks. It is smaller and 
more hairy than the first-named species, and the folds of its 
skin are less marked. It ranges from Assam, Burma, Tenas- 
serim and the Malay Peninsula to its typical habitat in Sumatra 
and Borneo, but is absent from Java. The Museum possesses 
a stuffed specimen from Perak, a female, presented in 1901 by 
Mr. R. von Pustau, Acting Consul for Austria at that time ; 
and two skeletons, one of them fron^ N. Borneo, presented in 
J 901 by Mr. Rowe. 
The Tapir has a remarkable distribution. Four species 
of it occur in Central and South America, and cme in Malaya, 
The Malay Tapir or Tenok {Tapirus imfktis) is the largest of 
them. The American species are uniformly coloured, but in 
the Malayan form the front p:irt of the body is dark brown, and 
the hinder part^ from the shoulders onwards, greyish white. 
Still more remarkably cr^loured are the newly-born specimens 
of which two are exhibited, one of them» from Malacca, pre- 
sented by Sir Cecil Smith in 1888, anci one from Palembang, 
Sumatra, presented by Mr. Mahomed Yahya in 1905. They 
are marked with broad longitudinal streaks and spots of white 
(see pi. VIII, tig, 2), These markings soon disappear, and a 
slightly older specimen, also exhibited, shows only a single 
faint white streak on either shoulder. The Malay Tapir is 
known only from Tenasserini. the Malay Peninsula and 
Sumatra. Europeans had long been familiar with the American 
Tapir, but it is strange that the Malay one became known to 
them only last century when Major VV. Farqiihar described and 
figured it in a letter dated Malacca, January, 29, 1816, published 
in the Asiatick Researches". Vol. XIU (1820), 
The Malayan Bovidae include the Seladang, the Banting, 
the Water-BulTaloj the Anoa and the Serow,— The Seladang or 
Gaur {Bos gaums) has been called the 'Vfinest species of the 
genus Bos in the world." Lydekker, in his 'Great and Small 
Game of India, Burma and Tibet' says that it occasionally 
stands as much as 6 feet or even 6 feet 4 inches ( — 19 hands) at 
the withers, " A very marked character according to the 
same authority, " is the strong development of the dorsal ridge, 
and its very sudden termination in a step about midway 
between the shoulders and the root of the tail ". Whilst the 
general colour i^^ dark olive brown, the " forehead, from between 
