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Show 1900.] MAMMALS OF SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA. 369 journey of Alor Star. Mr. F. H. Malcolm Staples told me (Sept. 1897) that the Tapir is still sometimes met with about Batu Pahat, Johore. On the 25th July, 1898,1 saw a young Tapir alive in Bangkok : it had been brought^from the Malay Peninsula, from between Kedah and Singora; it was kept in the King of Siam's menagerie, and died about 6th August, 1898. Distribution. Tenasserim, Lower Siam, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra. Family BOVIDAE. 142. Bos GAURUS Ham. Smith. The Gaur or S'ladang. Bosgour, Cantor, p. 64. Bos gaurus, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 484, fig. 159 (p. 488). " Kating " of the Siamese (both B. gaurus and B. sondaicus seem included in this name). " Sapi utan " (i. e. Cattle of the Woods) of the Malays of the Peninsula, apud Cantor. " S'ladang " of the Malays. W. L. Sclater (Cat. M a m m . Ind. Mus. 1891, p. 125) records a skull and horns from Malacca from Dr. Maingay, 1863. Ridley (J. S. B. R. A. S. no. 25,1894, p. 59) says : " The S'ladang is to be met with all through the Pahang jungles, but, owing to its shy and retiring habits, is difficult of approach. Tahan woods and all down Pahang River." In the Museum at Taiping there are horns from Batang Padang, Perak, and many fine heads from Pahang shot by Mr. C. F. W . Curtis. In the Museum at Kuala Lumpor there are a stuffed bull and numerous heads shot by the late Captain H. C. Syers in Selangor. The Raffles Museum contains a skull from Ulu Pahang presented by Mr. W . Bertrand Roberts. Mr. W . Sinclair told me in Jan. 1898 that there are wild cattle, probably of this species, in the hill-jungle at the back of Anghin, Siam. A pair of horns, apparently of this species, from near Raheng, Siam, measured in length 24 inches, and in circumference at the base 17 inches. Mr. A. J. A. Jardine, Inspector General of Police, Bangkok, told me he had found a Gaur killed by wild dogs near Shagan Salween River, Burma. Distribution. Parts of India, Assam, Burma, Siam, Malay Peninsula; Cochinchina ? 143. Bos SONDAICUS Miill. & Schleg. The Banting or Tumbaadu. Bos sondaicus, Blanf. Faun. Ind., Mamm. p. 489. " Kating " of the Siamese. " Sapi-utan " of the Malays. In March 1897 I saw detached horns, apparently of this species, |