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Show 1900.] MAMMALS OF SIAM A N D THE MALAY PENINSULA. 351 Pahang. There is a specimen from the Batu Caves, Selangor, in the Museum at Kuala Lumpor. Distribution. Siam, Malay Peninsula (Penang, Selangor, Pahang, Malacca, Singapore), Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 100. NYCTINOMUS PLICATUS (Buchanan). The Indian Wrinkled-lipped Bat. Nyctinomus tenuis, Cantor, p. 9. Nyctinomus plicatus, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 354. Cantor records this species from the Malay Peninsula. Dobson (Cat. Cbir. B. M. p. 425) records specimens from the Malay Peninsula and Singapore. An interesting account of these bats at Hpagat, Sal ween, Burma, by Capt. A. R. S. Anderson, appeared in ' Natural Science,' 1899, p. 259, taken from the " Administration Report of the Marine Survey of India, 1897-98." Distribution. India, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines. 101. NYCTINOMUS JOHORENSIS Dobson. Dato Meldrum's ^ Nyctinomus johorensis, Dobson, Cat. Chir. B.M. p. 432. The type specimen was obtained in Johore by Date Meldrum. He sent it to Wood-Mason, who presented it Indian Museum, 1872. So far as I am aware, this is th specimen in any collection. Distribution. Malay Peninsula (Johore). Order R0DENTIA. Family SCIURID^;. 102. PTEROMYS ORAL Tick. The Large Brown Flying-Squirrel. Pteromys oral, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 361, fig. 122. " Baang-let" of the Siamese. While in Siam (Nov. 1898) I was shown the skin of a Flying- Squirrel shot at Prachei (a place between Ayuthia and Korat), which agreed exactly with Blanford's description of this species. Distribution. India, Ceylon, Burma, Mergui Archipelago, Siam. 103. PTEROMYS PETAURISTA, Pallas. The Large Malay Flying- Squirrel. Pteromys nitidus, Cantor, p. 44. Pteromys nitidus, O. Thomas, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 73. " Tupai Terbang " or " Kubin " of the Malays of the Peninsula (Cantor). " Tupai Belang " of the Malays (Ridley). "Grabah" or " Kubin" of the Malays (L. Wray, jun.). Cantor records this species from Penang, Singapore, and the Peninsula, and says it is " very numerous in the Malayan countries. |