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Show 236 MR. R. SWINHOE ON THE MAMMALS OF HAINAN. [Apr. 28, in a footnote to the second reference, " Hares are unknown in Arakan and in the Tenasserim provinces, also throughout the Malayan peninsula and archipelago, with the exception of Lepus nigricollis, F. Cuv., in Java, which has most probably been introduced from S. India or Ceylon, as it doubtless likewise has in the Mauritius; but we have met with several notices of Hares in the Indo-Chinese countries, even in Cochin-China, the species being as yet undetermined." The Gazetteer says of the Too (or Hare), " In the Buddhist books it is called Shay-kia; is as large as a fox and of a brownish colour; its anus has nine apertures; the female gets impregnated by licking the bristles of the male." 20. WHITE-WHISKERED WILD BOAR. ISUS leucomystax,Temm. et Schleg. Faun. Japon. I heard of a Wild Hog occurring in the island, but never got sight of it. The Hainan Gazetteer speaks of it as if it were the ordinary Wild Boar, and merely quotes from the Puntsao (the great Chinese Herbal) the following remarks in illustration:-" Yaychoo (Wild Pig), K o w Tungshe says, is in form like the domestic Pig, but has a small belly, long feet, and brown hair; roams about in herds. The hunters dare only shoot arrows at the hindmost animal; if they hit the foremost, or one in the centre of the herd, the rest scatter and wound the sportsmen. The pork of the Wild Boar is red, like horse-flesh, but is more excellent eating than that of tame Pig." Du Halde (op. cit.) tells of the " Cocho'ns-marrons (which are a species of Wild Boar)" being very common there. At Yu-lin-kan (S. Hainan) the Le people trap the Wild Pigs by clearing a space on the edge of the jungle and enclosing it with a wooden stockade, with an opening on one side. The stockade is angular; and at each angle is built a cone-shaped trap, formed of strips of wood, pointing outwards and downwards. The Pigs that venture inside the stockade are driven, and in their attempt to escape jump head foremost into these wooden pockets, and, not being able to back out of them iu their hurry, are easily taken. At the bartering-place Lingmun (Central Hainan) I picked out two Pigs' skulls from a lot of bones brought in by the Le to dispose of to the Chinese for manuring-purposes. These skulls are evidently not of a wild Pig. Du Halde must mean by " Cochons-marrons" runaway, or feral, domestic pigs; but it is scarcely probable that a large island like Hainan has been stocked by runaway pigs. I did not see any peculiar Pig in the possession of the Le people, nor did I hear of any. 21. SCALY ANT-EATER. Manis dalmanni, Sundevall. Pholidotus dalmanni, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 366. I procured the skins of an adult and of a young Scaly Ant-eater at Hainan, which have much in common with the South-China species. Adult. Total length 33 inches; tail 12*75 inches. Ears developed much as in the Chinese species. Scales rather darker. Reddish hair on underparts, and between scales much darker. Scales |