406 A NATURALIST ON THE "CHALLENGER." 



passam kaguan." The man appeared accordingly next morning 

 at daybreak and I went with him and shot the animal. 



The guide led me through the forest to some clearings belong- 

 in^ to Moros here living inland. Their houses were raised on 

 poles at least twelve feet above the ground. We went to one 

 where the wife of the owner, a very handsome young woman, 

 was sitting on the ladder with her child in her arms. Some 

 few trees were standing isolated, not having been as yet felled 

 in the clearing. On one of these, after much search, a Kaguan 

 (Galeopithecus) was seen hanging to the shady side of the tall 

 trunk. It was an object very easily seen, much more so than 

 I had expected. It moved up the tree with a shambling jerky 

 gait, hitching itself up apparently by a series of short springs. 

 It did not seem disposed to take a flying leap, so I shot it. 

 It was a female with a young one clinging to the breast. It 

 was in a tree at least 40 yards distant from any other, and must 

 have flown that length to reach it. I understood from my guide 

 that numbers of the animals were caught when trees were cut 

 down in clearing. They are especially abundant at the island 

 of Bojol, north of Mindonao, and their skins were sold at Cebu, 

 which lies near, at four dollars a dozen. 



Close by on some lower trees were several Flying Lizards 

 (Draco volans), which similarly have a flying membrane, but in 

 their case supported on extensions of the ribs. I saw the little 

 lizards spring several times from tree to tree and branch to 

 branch; but they pass through the air so quickly that the 

 extension of their parachute is hardly noticed during the flight. 

 We had several of them alive on board the ship for a day or 

 two, where they flew from one leg of the table to another. It 

 was curious to see two animals so widely different in structure, 

 yet provided with so similar means of flight, thus occurring 

 together in the same grove and even on the same tree. 



At Malanipa Island, a very small island, not far from Zam- 

 boanga, natives had felled a good many large trees to make 

 canoes. The suitable trees are usually at some distance from the 

 water. A straight broad road is cut through the smaller wood 

 direct from the large tree to the sea-shore; and the smaller 

 trees are felled so as to fall across the road. On their prostrate 



