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Prof. Dr. Max Weber on the 



If we exclude the Cliiroptera, Celebes has the following 

 land-mammals : — 



Mus Meyeri, Jent. 



Faberi, Jent. 



decumanus, Pall. 



rattus, L. 



celebensis, Gray. 



Echiotrix leucura, Gray. 

 Paradoxurus Musschenbroekii 



Schl. 

 Viverra tangalunga, Gray. 

 Anoa depressicornia, Smith. 

 Sus celebensis, Mull. 

 Babirussa alfurus, Less. 

 Russa russa, Mull. 

 Pbalanger celebensis, Gray. 

 ursinus, Tetnm. 



Cynopithecus niger, Desm. 

 Macacus maurus, F. Cuv. 

 Cerocebus cynomolgus, Schreb, 

 Tarsius fuacpmanus, Fisch. 

 Sciurus murinus, Mull. Sf Schl. 



rubi venter, Mull. # Schl. 



leucoinus, Midi. 8f Schl. 



Prevosti, Desm. 



notatus, Bodd. 



Weberi, Jent. 



Acantbion javanicum, F. Cuv. 

 Mus Beccarii, Jent. 



Musscbenbroekii, Jent. 



■ xautburus, Gray. 



Hellwaldii, Jent. 



callithrichus, Jent. 



If we include the island of Sanghi, in very close proximity 

 to Celebes, as well as the Saleyer group, there are the fol- 

 lowing additions : — 



Sciurus Rosenbergi, Jent. Pbalanger maculatus, St.-Hil. 



Paradoxurus musanga, Gray. 



Bali and Lombok, are only a few miles apart, and are subject to tbe same 

 climatic conditions, tbe land-fauna characteristic of eacb is quite different ; 

 and still more is this tbe case when we cross tbe Macassar Strait from 

 the Indian Borneo to the Australian Celebes. The decided contrast in 

 the birds and mammals of each is so great that it must be reckoned as 

 one of the most striking chorological arguments of Trausformi^mus " 

 (" schlagendsten chorologischen Argumenten des Transformismus "). 

 Hasckel (' Schopfung der Thier,' 1893, p. 238) is of the same opinion, and 

 does his utmost to make the mammal-fauna of Celebes " and those islands 

 which together with it form a group " an Australian one. The stag and 

 the civet-cat were introduced by man into Celebes, perhaps also the pig 

 (Sus celebensis) ; " it may, of course, have had an opportunity of swimmitig 

 across the arms of the sea and of developing in Celebes into a peculiar 

 species, while the squirrels and the Tarsii have possibly also reached 

 Celebes on drift-wood . . . the crested baboon, the Indian hog, and the 

 Anoa, probably ancient forms, which Celebes obtained when it was still 

 connected with the Indian region, thereby offering opportunity for the 

 immigration of certain animals which have since died out in India." 

 Thus, while some Indian mammals have been imported, and Sus cele- 

 bensis, six species of squirrels, and Tarsius fuscomanus have either swum or 

 been drifted across, and the mice (of which there are about twelve species 

 unconnected with Australian mice) " are descendants of former Australian 

 species,'' there remain three species of Pbalanger, the only animals, as 

 the author himself confesses, peculiar to the Australian region. One asks 

 with astonishment why Phalangers did not come to Celebes on drift- 

 wood, since they are splendid climbers, can cling tightly to trees, and are 

 very tenacious of life. Still more astonishing is it that an author who 

 writes about Celebes should know so little of its fauna that he quite 

 forgets two apes (Cercocebus cynomolgus and Macacus maurus) and two 

 beasts of prey (Paradoxurus musanga and P. Musschenbroekii). These 

 probably wandered over from India too when Celebes " was united to the 

 Indian region.'' 



