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Show 370 MR. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE [Apr. 3, in the Governor's house at Pachira, Siam ; they were said to have been obtained in that province. The Banting is probably very rare in the Malay Peninsula: Mr. H . N . Ridley told me one was killed by Mr. Oxley at Muar about fifty years ago ; Mr. J. Rodger, C.M.G., has in his possession a single horn, apparently of this species, obtained from a Sakei: and both Mr. Ridley and Mr. A. L. Butler tell m e one was killed recently in Perak. Distribution. Burma, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Java, Bali, Borneo, and Sumatra ? 144. Bos BUBALUS Linn. The Buffalo. Bubalus amee, Cantor, p. 65. Bos bubalus, Blanf. Faun. Ind., M a m m . p. 491. " Khwai" of the Siamese. " Karbau " of the Malays. Cantor says:-" The wild Buffalo is reported, but apparently without proof, to be indigenous in the Malayan Peninsula. Domesticated it is very plentiful." Ridley (J. S. B. R. A. S. no. 25, 1894, p. 59) says it is very doubtful if the Buffalo occurs in a wild state in Pahang. I was told, on good authority, that there are Buffaloes near Pailin, in Siam, descendants of some that ran wild about fifty years ago. Distribution. Wild in parts of India and Ceylon. Wild or feral iu parts of Burma, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. Domesticated in Egypt, Italy, Southern Asia, and the Malay Islands. 145. NEMORHOSDUS SUMATRENSIS (Shaw-). Goat-Antelope. Ncemorhedus sumatrensis, Cantor, p. 64. Nemorhcedus sumatrensis, Blanf. Faun. Ind., M a m m . p. 514. " Leea'ngpah " or " Ooarpar " of the Siamese. " Kambing utan " or " Kambing gran " of the Malays. " Black Mountain-goat" of the English in the Straits Settlements. Cantor says " it appears to be numerous on the Malayan Peninsula, but exceedingly difficult to obtain, as it frequents the steepest hilly localities, and is very shy and active." W . L. Sclater (Cat. M a m m . Indian Mus. ii. 1891, p. 151) records a skull from Province Wellesley. Bidley, writing on the Mammals of Pahang (J. S. B. R. A. S. no. 25,1894, p. 60), remarks : "This wild goat is supposed to occur in the high mountains of the interior, but there is no record of its having been obtained " ; and (Nat. Science, vi. 1895, p. 163) says it " inhabits the isolated patches of limestone rocks which flank at intervals the main granite chain of the Peninsula. Though apparently not rare in these places, it has never been shot by any sportsman." In the Museum at Taiping there is a stuffed head from near |