orang oetan's, die toch volgens Limat op het eiland voorkomen, maar diens verhaal klonk zoo legendarisch, dat naar onze meening de Engelschman geen orang oetan's vond, omdat ze er niet zijn. Eens, zeide Limat, was er een orang oetan gevangen, een wijfje, dat men echter slechts een paar uur in de kampong had kunnen houden, want het huis, waarin men het gebracht had was door de inmiddels toegesnelde mannetjes met steenworpen belegerd, waardoor men al spoedig genoodzaakt was geweest het wijfje los te laten.

De terugreis naar Senarë op den volgenden morgen werd in ruim vier uur volbracht. We bleven dien dag nog bij den penghoeloe om met hem te spreken over den aanplant van Liberia-koffie op de daarvoor geschikte plaatsen langs de hellingen van den Ranai.

pag. 466. List of a second collection ofBirds from the Natuna Islands. By E. Hartert. pag. 499. The Reptiles and Batrachians of the Natuna Islands. By A. Günther.

Op blz. 657 van deell, 1894 der Novitates wordt van den bovenbedoelden stink das gezegd:

20. Mydaus meliceps F. Cuv.

A fine male in spirits from Bunguran.

This Midaus agrees very well with examples of M. meliceps in the British Museum, in whose collection there are specimens from Sumatra, Borneo and Java.

[Native name „Bubut". Common in Bunguran, but not easy to obtain, as the natives have a great objection to touching these animals on account of their odour. The presence of Midaus on any island may be taken as proof conclusive that such island has never been wholly submerged since its severance from the mainland, for, owing to its burrowing habits and its evil smell, it is most improbable that it could ever have been introduced through the agency of floating vegetation or by man, whilst its powers of swimming, if any, must be very limited. Neither this genus nor Manis appears to be represented in Sirhassen —• nor indeed does any species of mammal seem to exist in that island (and probably the other South Natunas) which might not have been brought there by flight or swimming, on floating timber and vegetation, or by man. — A. Everett],

Novitates Zoologica, Vol. II, 1895. pag. 490:

11. Mydaus 'meliceps F. Cuv.

Six skins from Bunguran. In most of them the white stripe along the back runs through from the head to the tail * in others it is more or less interrupted in the middle. — The smell of these animals , even from the skins, is very strong.