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Show 1900.] ON THE MAMMALS OF THE " SKEAT EXPEDITION." 869 A large proportion of the insects mentioned in this paper have been identified by comparison with specimens preserved at Oxford in the Hope Department of the University Museum, to the officials of which I offer m y thanks for the ready help which they have given me. I cannot conclude without expressing my personal gratitude to the Siamese Government for the kindness and generosity with which it treated us throughout: to the officials at Bangkok and Singora who arranged for our reception in lower Siam : to the Malay Rajas through whose territory we passed, without whose aid the Siamese Malay States are practically a closed country to Europeans : and to Luang Phrom, Commissioner of Patani, to K u n Ehat W a n Hussein, and to the other gentlemen who accompanied us as agents of the Siamese Government; at whose hands I received much personal kindness, and whose assistance and advice made it possible to travel in such a country with physical comfort and with some degree of celerity. 3. O n the M a m m a l s collected during the " Skeat Expedition" to the Malay Peninsula, 1899-1900. By J. L E W I S BONHOTE, B.A. [Received October 16, 1900.] (Plate LVL) I have the pleasure of furnishing a report on the collection of Mammals made in the Malay Peninsula by Messrs. E. Evans and F. F. Laidlaw, who accompanied an expedition under Mr. W . W . Skeat. As might be expected, the collection, which includes specimens of 54 species, is of considerable interest, although only one, a rodent, appears to be new to science. A fine specimen of Macacus rufescens was procured, which has hitherto only been know7n by the type, a young example; the presence of Trichys lipura, a Bornean species about whose occurrence in this region considerable doubt had been expressed, is of great interest. The collection also contains a fine skull of Hystrix yunnanensis; a skin of Mus cremoriventer, a scarce species lately described from the Malay Peninsula by Mr. G. Miller, jun., of Washington; and several specimens of Vesperugo tylopus, originally described from Borneo. As Capt. Stanley Flower has lately published a catalogue of the Mammals of Siam aud the Malay Peninsula, I have not given the full synonymy but have referred to his paper, only adding the references to one or two subsequent papers to which he did not have access. Great praise is due to Messrs. Evans and Laidlaw for the careful way in which they collected: almost all the specimens having careful dates and measurements, which, apart from greatly adding to their value, has considerably lessened tbe work of identification. With regard to the position of the places 57* |
