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Borneo. 



the toes, which have been already modified for purposes of 

 swimming and adhesive climbing, have been taken advantage 

 of to enable an allied species to jDass through the air like the 

 flying lizard. It would appear to be a new s^Decies of the 

 genus Rhacophorus, which consists of several frogs of a much 

 smaller size than this, and having the webs of the toes less 

 developed. 



During my stay in Borneo I had no hunter to shoot for 



FLYING FROG. 



rae regularly, and, being myself fully occupied with insects, I 

 did not succeed in obtaining a very good collection of the 

 birds or Mammalia, many of which, however, are well known, 

 being identical with species found in Malacca. Among the 

 Mammalia were five squirrels, two tiger-cats, the Gymnurus 

 rafllesii, which looks like a cross between a pig and a polecat, 



