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Show 364 MR. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE [Apr. 3, Museum three stuffed specimens from Siam of a species of Bamboo- Rat : they had been labelled (probably by the late Dr. E. Haase) R. badius, but they looked to me more like the young of R. sumatrensis. Distribution. Parts of Burma, Siam, and Malay Peninsula. Family HYSTRICID^E. 135. HYSTRIX LONGICAUDA Marsden. The Malay Porcupine. Hystrix longicauda, Cantor, p. 48. " Landak " or " Babi Landak " (i. e. pig-porcupine) of the Malays. Cantor records this species from the Malay Peninsula, and says it " is numerous, and, as it is considered a delicacy by the Chinese population, is frequently brought to market." Ridley (Nat. Science, vi. 1895, p. 94) calls this species Hystrix leucura, and says of it:-"The Porcupine is still common in Singapore, but a number must be destroyed by the burning of the open country, in which they chiefly live. The are very destructive to the prhe-apples." The Museum at Taiping contains a specimen from Larut, Perak. The Museum at Kuala Lumpor contains one young porcupine, apparently of this species, locality unknown but probably from Selangor. On the 14th Oct. 1897, 1 bought a live porcupine from a Malay in Singapore, who said it had been caught on Bukit Timah ; it soon became tame and an interesting pet. (It is still ahve with me, February 1900.) Distribution. Malay Peninsula (Perak, Selangor, Singapore), Sumatra, Java?, Borneo? In the Siamese Museum there were twro stuffed Porcupines, both labelled "Siam," representing apparently two species, but I do not know^ which : one with a pale brown forehead and a light crest had been labelled by some one "H. bengalensis;" the other had no crest, and had an old label " H. hodgsoni." The Siamese call a porcupine "menn." 136. ATHERURA MACRURA (Linn.). The Asiatic Brush-tailed Porcupine. Atherura fasciculata, Cantor, p. 49. Atherura macrura, Blanf. Faun. Ind., M a m m . p. 446, fig. 146. "Landak" of the Malays. " Landak-woobi " of the Malays of Selangor (A. L. Butler). Diard and Duvaucel in 1821 (Miscell. Papers Indo-China, 2nd series, vol. ii. p. 208,1887) speak of this species as " the porcupine of Queda " (i. e. Kedah), and say it " always carries its tail lifted up like a trumpet, and makes the tuft at the end tremble." Cantor records this species from Penang and the Peninsula, and says it „" is very numerous in the Malayan valleys and hills. In its fretful habits and in its food it resembles the preceding porcupine, like which, it is carried to the markets at Pinang and Malacca, where as |