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Show 1900.] MAMMALS OF SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA. 333 Family HY^NID^E. Cantor (p. 27) says a Hyaena is reported to occur in the Malay Peninsula, but no Englishman nor native I have met has heard of it there or in Siam. Family CANID^E. 43. CANIS FAMILIARIS L. The Dog. Owing to the exertions of the Police authorities, pariah dogs are fortunately very scarce in the Straits Settlements nowadays. It is far otherwise in Siam ; the miserable, maimed, and mangy pariahs which, together with pigs, vultures, and crows, are the scavengers of Bangkok, are a feature of the place. In the suburbs and country villages tbe dogs are less diseased, and I have two or three times seen specimens remarkably jackal-like in appearance, but have never seen or heard of true jackals in Siam. These ownerless dogs, or at any rate some of them, run about at night in packs, hunting for their food. 44. CYON RUTILANS (S. Miill.). The Malay Wild Dog. Cuon primcevus, Cantor, p. 26. Cyon rutilans, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 147; Ridley, Nat. Science, vol. vi. 1895, p. 94. " Anjing utan" (Dogs of the woods) of the Malays. " Srigalah" of the Malays of Perak (according to L. Wray). The wild dog seems quite unknown in Penang and Singapore, but is distributed through the less settled parts of the Peninsula. In the Museum at Taiping there is a specimen from Kuala Kangsar, Perak ; and in the Eaffles Museum are specimens from Pahang and Mt. Ophir. Consul T. ff. Carlisle, writing to me from Pailin in the Battambong province of Siam in February 1899, says: " Wild dogs are said to be plentiful in parts of this province. I am trying to get one. I have been told there are two kinds." Distribution. Siam (?), Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo (?). Family MUSTELID^E. Subfamily MUSTELINE. 45. MUSTELA FLAVIGULA Bodd. The Indian Marten. Mustela Jiavigula, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 158. " Anga Prao " of the Malays of the Peninsula (according to Cantor). Cantor (p. 24) records this species from the Malay Peninsula. In the Museum at Kuala Lumpor there is a specimen caught on a coffee estate about seven miles from Kuala Lumpor. Distribution. Himalayas from Hazara to Assam, hills of Southern India, Ceylon (?), Amurland, South China, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java(?). |
