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248 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII,
Teagulus javanicus bokneanus.
Tragulus bomeanus, Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
XV, 1902, p. 550: Lyon, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXIII.
i9°7, P- 550.
Tragulus napu bomeanus, Lyon. op. cit., XL, 191 1, p. 64.
Tragulus javanicus
Mus., IV, 1915. p. 2JO.
bomeanus, Lvdekker. Cat. Ung. Brit.
Of six specimens from Paku Saribas, Sarawak, two are
indistinguishable in general colouration from the Sumatran
and Malayan napu : the others are more heavily clouded with
black above. On the whole, the neck chevron in darker; the
dark element being more intensely black, less brownish black.
Of two specimens from the Kapuas R, Western Borneo,
Lyon says : ' The skins are practically indistinguishable in
coloration from specimens of 7". napu from Sumatra." Later,
dealing with a large series, he sums up the position as follows :
" A careful comparison of these with a large number of specimens
from various localities in Sumatra, the type-locality of
napu, shows that the Sumatran and Bornean napus are almost
i lentical in point of size, color, and cranial characters. The
Bornean animal averages a very little smaller in most external
and cranial measurements. At the same time the throat
markings are slightly darker and the collar slightly wider than
they are in typical napu. These differences, however, are
very slight and not at all constant, and it is only possible to
identify with certainty a little over half the specimens in each
series."
Habitat :—Borneo and Pulau Laut.
Specimens examined :— Six.
Tragulus javanicus stanleyanus.
This race was based by Gray on living animals of
unknown provenance. Various suggestions have been made
as to the habitat : —the Sunda Islands by Milne-Edwards, and
the Malay Peninsula by several other writers. Twenty years
acquaintance with Malaysia, however, has convinced me that
no such form occurs on the mainland and that the examples
known to Gray came from Battam Island, opposite Singapore,
on the south side of the Strait, whence to this day living
animals are not infrequently brought over and offered for sale
in the Singapore bazaar.
Gray's description exactly fits the Battam race and
Singapore is so obviously a port from which living animals
might have been taken to England that I feel one would be
wilfully blind to facts in refusing to accept Battam Island as
the typical locality of stanleyanus, though Miller, while stanleyanus
was looked on as a species of undetermined provenance,
has described the Battam stanleyanus (first rediscovered by
myself) as Tragulus perflavus.
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