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Celebes. Rats were fairly common and I have gotten about seven species. 
Sciurus leucomus is also common as is Sciurus murimus, but I have seen no 
other squirrels. Big game is scarce and | have shot nothing larger than the 
black monkeys, of which I have a good series (15) and feel quite sure that you 
will find them to be a different variety than those | formerly collected. The 
crest seems much longer, the callosities are a different shape and the face nar- 
rower. [They are Cynopithecus (fg. 34), while those previously obtained were 
Magus (fig. 33).] 
Fic. 31.—A mother and her two daughters, natives of 
lemboan, Celebes. Nearly all of the natives of Muina- 
hassa are Christians. 
This is not just the bat season, the natives claim, as it has been raining almost 
steadily and there is no fruit about. I have got five species of bats, among 
them five specimens of a large-eared Megaderma which is new to my collec- 
tion. In all I have something over five hundred specimens, most of which are 
mammals; also I have got quite a number of land shells. 
I am now about to start for Goenoeng Klabat, as with much trouble I have 
managed to get fairly dry the specimens on hand, 
