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Show .1900.] MAMMALS OF SIAM A N D THE MALAY PENINSULA. 365 many as twenty to thirty may frequently be seen." W. L. Sclater (Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. ii. 1891, p. 104) records a specimen from Malacca. Ridley (Nat. Science, vi. 1895, p, 94) says:-" The Brush-tailed Porcupine (Atherura macrura) is not a native of Singapore, so far as is known; it inhabits the limestone caves in Pahang," This probably refers to the animals which Ridley (J. S. B. R. A. S. no. 25, Jan. 1894, p. 59), in his " List of Mammals recorded from Pahang," says were " caught in the Kota Glangga caves," but he then called them " Hystrix longicauda, Marsden." The Raffles Museum possesses a specimen from Malacca. The Museum at Taiping contains four stuffed individuals from Larut, Perak. The Museum at Kuala Lumpor contains one specimen without locality. Distribution. Burma, Malay Peninsula (Kedah, Penang, Perak, Malacca, Pahang), Sumatra, Java ; Borneo ? Family LEPORID^;. 137. LEPUS sp. inc. Hare. A hare occurs in Siam, but I do not know of what species : I saw one caught alive at Genkoi (between Ayuthia and Korat), 21st November, 1897, and a leveret that had been caught near Chantaboon, January 1898. Order PR0B0SCIDEA. Family ELEPHANTIDJE. 138. ELEPHAS MAXIMUS L. The Indian Elephant. Elephas indicus, Cantor, p. 52. Elephas maximus, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 463; S. Flower, Journ. Bombay N. H. S. vol. xi. no. 2, p. 335 (1897). " Gajah " of the Malays. " Chang " of the Siamese. In the Royal Siamese Museum there was a life-size model of a male Siamese Elephant, and a most magnificent collection of about seventy tusks, all, so far as I could ascertain, from Siam; forty of these tusks are over 4 feet 8 inches (1420 mm.) in length. The Selangor Museum contains six or seven skulls of local elephants. Wild elephants do not occur in either Penang or Singapore, nor are tame ones employed there ; but on the continent, both in Siam and the Malay Peninsula, elephants are found wild in suitable localities, and are trained for various purposes. Personally I only once came on wild elephants, a party of four, near the Bangpakong River, in March 1897; but in June 1897 we observed over a hundred wild ones caught in the Kraal at Ayuthia. I saw more or less trained elephants in Bangkok, Ayuthia, Chantaboon, Kedah, and Perak, but in the Southern Malay States the people do not seem to catch and tame them. H. J. Kelsall (J. S. B. R. A. S. no. 26 |