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62 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII,
collecting live turtle and tortoise-shell, the former of which
are sold in Singapore while the latter finds a market in Rhio.
Thej' possess small kampongs where bananas, maize,
and sugar cane ate cultivated, but no rice is grown.
ubi kayu
We stopped a couple of days on the Eastern side but
being warned than the anchorage there was precarious in bad
weather were conducted by a very tortuous and intricate
channel to a little pool (it was hardly more) on the western
side near an islet known as Mentigi, a commonplace
among orang laut people, where we remained a week.
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The collecting was disappointing but besides the species
actually secured we caught a fleeting glimpse of a Tragulus,
while pig of both species, Sits oi and Sits rhionis are known
to occur, but without dogs are difficult to obtain. In the
sheltered bays in the vicinity Duyong (Halicore duyong) are
very fairly common and are much hunted, cigarette holders
made out of the canines being much prized and commanding
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a high price in Tanjong Pinang (the capital of Rhio .
our way back to Singapore we shot a small dark brown
porpoise, one of a school ? (Flatanista sp.) of fifteen or twenty,
but it was seized by a shark and torn to pieces before we
could secure it.
Of reptiles we got hardly any: Cyclemys platynoius is
fairly common and so are Draco volans, D. mclanopogon and
Mabuia multifasciata, while we also secured specimens of
the Hawks bill turtle. Near Mentigi was a pen in which
were some fifty or sixty green turtle (Ghelone mydas) which
were bought up by a Chinaman for sale in Singapore and
fed on a variety of sea-grass common in shallow bays in the
neighbourhood.
SYSTEMATIC.
A. Mammals.
Pithects fascicularis (Raffles).
Pitheciis bintangensis, Elliot, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8)
iv, p. 257 (1909); id. Rev. Prim, ii, p. 246, pi. xxvii (1912).
1 (j ad. Mentigi, West Side Pulau Mapor, 6th June, 1915.
F.M.S. No.
This kra belongs to the group with dark iron grey hands
and feet, tail blackish above, on its basal portion silvery grey
beneath, back of head and mantle annulated with black and
rufous orange, the latter colour fading away towards the rump.
Limbs and sides annulated with black and silvery grey.
Dimensions (taken in the flesh). Head and Body, 395; (456)
tail, 535; (505) hindfoot, 135 (n7'5) ear 25 mm. (29).
Skull: Total length, 114 (105); occipito nasal length, 95
(85.5); zygomatic breadth, 73 (72'5); length of upper tooth row
excl. canine 28.0 (26.7) mm.
The skull characters derived by Elliot from the small
series at his command are worthless as subspccific characters
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