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Show 1900.] MAMMALS OF SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA. 371 Kuala Kangsar, Perak, and a complete skeleton and two pairs of horns, all, I understand, from Perak. In the Museum at Kuala Lumpor there are several frontlets and horns, without locality. Mr. A. L. Butler told m e he saw a Goat-Antelope in March 1898 near " the Cottage" in the Larut Hilta, Perak, at an elevation of about 4000 feet; and in a letter, dated 14th March, 1899, mentions Sir Frank Swettenham as having shot one in the Perak Hills. This is the first instance, to m y knowledge, of one of these animals being shot by a European sportsman in the Peninsula. though many have tried. Tn another letter, dated 5th November, 1899, Mr. Butler tells me he has examined three specimens, and says " the Nemorhoedus of the Peninsula is not N. sumatrensis,ha.ving legs black instead of rufous." The Siamese Museum possesses a stuffed female from the Laos country, each horn 7-8 inches (198 mm.) in length, and a frontlet without locality, each horn 7-4 inches in length. A frontlet from the hills between Raheng (Siam) and Burma was shown me by Mr. J. Harper : length of horns 7'75 inches, circumference of horns at base 5-25 inches; a horn in my possession from Perak is 6-15 inches in length, and 4-5 inches in circumference at base. In July 1898, a live goat of this species was exhibited in Bangkok, but I was unable to find out where it had been caught; it was a very handsome animal, nearly black in colour. Distribution. Eastern Himalayas, Moupin, Yunnan, Assam, Burma, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra. Family CERVID^E. 146. CERVULUS MUNTJAC (Zimm.). The Kakar, or Barking Deer. Stgloceros muntjac, Cantor, p. 61. Cervulus muntjac, Blanf. Faun. Ind., M a m m . p. 532, fig. 173. " Kijang," " Kidjang " " Kidang," or of the Malays. Recorded from Kuala Tahan, Pahang, by Ridley (J. S. B. R. A. S. no. 25 1894, p. 60), who (Nat. Science, vi. 1895, p. 161) says :- " The Kijang does not occur now in Singapore, if it ever did. It is abundant in many places, such as the slopes of Mount Ophir, and is often shot by planters and others in and about the coffee plantations." This species is kept in the Singapore Botanical Gardens, where it breeds. There are specimens from Upper Perak in the Museum at Taiping, and from Selangor in the Museum at Kuala Lumpor. Hanitsch (Rep. Raffles Libr. & Mus. 1898, p. 7) mentions a young C. muntjac, 24 hours old, " showing clearly the white longitudinal striations, which soon disappear in older animals." The Kijang occurs in Siam. There is a pair of antlers in the Siamese Museum, presumably local, the length from burr to tip is 4-25 inches ; and Mr. N . Kelly Passmore gave m e the skull of one which had been shot by his overseer near Muok Lek, about |