Lesson and Garnot, Voyage de la Coquille. 117 
species approaching to the Wolf by its size, its long and coarse hair, its 
straight large ears, and its lengthened muzzle. In Peru the greater num- 
ber of the Dogs belong to the hairless or Egyptian variety ; a species of 
Arvicola was also noticed common ; and a Gerbillus was said to be fre- 
quently met with in the neighbourhood of Piura, of which no specimen 
could be procured. In the South Sea Islands the only quadrupeds are 
the Rat, a second large species of Mus, the Dog, and the Hog: the 
latter is of the Siamese breed, and is frequently allowed to run wild in 
the woods, in which circumstances its tusks become developed. 
None ot the domestic animals attempted to be introduced by the mission- 
aries have succeeded except the Goats, which seem capaple of being 
acclimated with moderate care within the tropics. In the Island of 
Oualan the Pteropus Keraudreni, Temm., and the Norway Rat were 
observed; and in New Ireland, teeth of the Babyrusa were obtained, 
as was also the Phalangista cavifrons, Temm. In Waigiou, one of 
the Philippine Islands, the Phalangista maculata, Temm., was extremely 
plentiful, and another Marsupial animal, apparently an undescribed spe- 
cies, of the size of a rat with grey hair and a very slender muzzle, called 
Kalubu by the natives, was obtained, although subsequently lost by 
shipwreck off the Cape of Good Hope. A large species of Deer has 
multiplied in Bourou, one of the Moluccas, to a great extent; and the 
Pteropus edulis, the flesh of which is delicate, is met with in abundance 
in the woods. Here also exists in the interior the remarkable Babyrusa, 
no specimen of which was procured; but several individuals were sub- 
sequently seen in Java. whither they had been brought by the Governor 
with the intention of sending them to Holland: they died on the voyage, 
and their skins were not preserved. Hence the museums of Europe were 
still without specimens of this interesting animal, even up to the period 
when M. Gaimard despatched, from the voyage in which he is now 
engaged, a living individual to the Paris Menagerie. In the description 
given there is little additional information to that derived from Valentyn : 
the skin is hard, wrinkled, and forming folds, with only a few scattered 
hairs, and has some resemblance to that of the Tapir. It is very common 
in the marshes of the interior of Bourou, in the territory of the Alfou- 
tous. New Guinea furnished the voyagers with a new species of Sus; 
and they once saw a Galeopithecus or large Pteromys. The Dog of New 
