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importance with extensive groups of islands many 

 times as large as itself ; and standing in the very centre 

 of the archipelago, surrounded on every side with islets 

 connecting it with the larger groups, and which seem 

 to afford the greatest facilities for the migration and 

 intercommunication of their respective productions, it 

 yet stands out conspicuous with a character of its own 

 in every department of nature, and presents peculiari- 

 ties which are, I believe, without a parallel in any 

 similar locality on the globe. 



Briefly to summarize these peculiarities, Celebes 

 possesses three genera of mammals (out of the very 

 small number which inhabit it) which are of singular 

 and isolated forms, viz., Cynopithecus, a tailless Ape 

 allied to the Baboons ; Anoa, a straight-horned Ante- 

 lope of obscure affinities, but quite unlike anything 

 else in the whole archipelago or in India : and Babi- 

 rusa, an altogether abnormal wild Pig. With a rather 

 limited bird population, Celebes has an immense pre- 

 ponderance of species confined to it, and has also six 

 remarkable genera (Meropogon, Ceycopsis, Strepto- 

 citta, Enodes, Scissirostrum, and Megacephalon) en- 

 tirely restricted to its narrow limits, as well as two 

 others (Prioniturus and Basilornis) which only range 

 to a single island beyond it. 



Mr. Smith's elaborate tables of the distribution of 

 Malayan Hymenoptera (see " Proc. Linn. Soc." Zool. 

 vol. vii.) show that out of the large number of 301 

 species collected in Celebes, 190 (or nearly two-thirds) 

 are absolutely restricted to it, although Borneo on one 



