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Show 882 ON THE MAMMALS OF THE " SKEAT EXPEDITION." [Dec. 4, as *' le pore epic de Malacca," and called Hystrix fasciculata Shaw, might be referred to the animal in question, as stated by Dr. Jentink1. I have been carefully through Buffon and Shaw's descriptions, comparing them with the present specimen, which differs in the following points :- (i) The tail is much longer, measuring about half the length of the body. (ii) Muzzle and legs are brown not black. (iii) The fifth digit ou the fore feet has a small nail and. is not merely a tubercle. (iv) The spines have a brown tip with a white base, instead of having a white tip and base and centre brown. This specimen agrees precisely in all these details with some six specimens of T. lipura from Borneo, and undoubtedly belongs to that species, which is, moreover, quite distinct from Hystrix fasciculata Shaw. . Judging from the length of the tail and the white tips to the spines, Buffon's description appears to me to refer to Atherura macrura (Linn.); at the same time Dr. Jentink's generic differentiations 2 between Atherura and Trichys appear to hold good, so that the specimens in the Leyden Museum from Malacca may probably be referred to T. lipura. Mr. Thomas gave the name guentheri on the assumption that lipura meaning tailless could not apply to an animal with a long tail, an assumption which in these days does not hold good. 49. TAPIRUS INDICUS CUV. Tapirus indicus, Cuv., Desm. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxii. p. 459 (1819); Flower, op. cit. p. 368. a. Imm. sk. & skel. Aring, Kelantan, Sept. 1899. 50. NEMORH03DUS SUMATRENSIS (Shaw) 3. Antilope sumatrensis, Shaw, Gen. Zool. ii. pt. 2, p. 354 (1801). Nemorhcedus sumatrensis, Flower, op. cit. p. 370. Two pairs of horns, the one without any data and the other from near Biserat, Jalor, presented by Mr. D.T.Gwynne Vaughan, are referable to this genus and probably to N. sumatrensis, but the material does not admit of a complete identification. 51. CERYUS UNICOLOR Bechstein. Cervus unicolor, Bechstein, Allgem. Uebers. d. vierfiiss. Thiere, i. p. 112 (1799); Flower, op. cit. p. 372. a. 2 skull. Biserat, Jalor, May 1899. This is a skull marked "Rusa Deer," which, according to Mr. Flower, is the local name for the species. 1 Notes from the Leyden Museum, vol. XTJ., Dec. 1894, p. 235. 2 Tom. cit. a The JS'cmorhwdus from the Peninsula has, since this paper Tvas read, been separated under the name N. sivettenhami by Mr. Butler (P. Z. S. 1900, p. 675), and is said to be distinguished by its jet-black legs. |
