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Show 336 MR. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE [Apr. 3, India. Mr. St. Stephen, Manager of the Kabin Gold Mines, on the Bangpakong River, told me, when I was there, that in 1895 or 1896 a coolie was killed by a bear near the mines ; he went out after the animal, but failed to find it. Some of the European engineers constructing the railway through the Dong Phya Fai said that bears were numerous in the hills of that forest, having their dens among the rocks. In the Siamese Museum is a stuffed Sloth-Bear, obtained before I went there, labelled by one of my predecessors " Siam " ; I made particular enquiries about it, and was assured by the Siamese that it came from the Laos country. But more evidence is wanted to prove that this species inhabits either the Laos States or Siam. Distribution. India, Ceylon, Assam (?), Burma (?), Siam (?). Order INSECTIVORA. Family TUPAIID^E. 53. TUPAIA FERRUGINEA Eaffl. The Malay Tree-Shrew. Tupaia ferruginea, Cantor, p. 18; Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 210. " Tupaia tana " of the Malays of Penang (apud Cantor). " This singular little animal was first observed tame in the house of a gentleman at Penang, and afterwards found wild at Singapore and in the woods near Bencoolen " (Sir Stamford Raffles, circa 1819). Cantor records it from " Pinang, Singapore, Malayan Peninsula," and gives some account of its habits, as also does Ridley (Nat. Science, vol. vi. 1895, p. 28), who records it from Pahang (J. S. B. R. A. S\ no. 25, Jan. 1894, p. 58). Oldfield Thomas (P. Z. S. 1886, p. 73) records it from Malacca and Jelang, Selangor. In the Museum at Taiping there is a specimen from the Waterfall Hill, Larut, labelled T. tana, but probably of this species. Tbe Museum at Kuala Lumpor contains specimens from Selangor. Distribution. Nepal, Assam, Burma, Malay Peninsula (Penang, Perak, Selangor, Pahang, Malacca, Singapore), Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 54. TUPAIA JAVANICA Horsf. The Javanese Tree-Shrew. Discovered by Horsfield in Java in 1806. Recorded from Pahang (Ridley, J. S. B. R, A. S. no. 25, Jan. 1894, p. 58), and from Selangor and Johore (O. Thomas, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 73). Distribution. Malay Peninsula (Selangor, Pahang, Johore), Sumatra, Java, Borneo. N.B.-Dr. Anderson (Cat. Mamm. Indian Mus. part i. p. 156, 1881) records two specimens of Tupaia malaccana from Malacca. I did not myself see a Tupaia in Siam, but there can be little doubt that at least one species occurs there. An English friend told me of an animal inhabiting his garden in Bangkok which was probably T. ferruginea, and the Siamese described it to me under the name of " Kra' chang." |