S68 REMARKS AND OPIN'fON'S, 



Tlie islands antl the continent, according to the 

 climate under wliich they lie, are equally rich in 

 the larger amphibia, and the crocodile in par- 

 ticular is found in both. 



Several kinds of animals have spread from the 

 northern point of Borneo to the adjacent islands. 

 In Jolo (Sooloo in the English map) we find the 

 elephant, and in Magindanao several of the larger 

 kinds of monkies. Fewer Mammalia have passed 

 from the northern point of the same island to 

 Paragua, and in Lu9on, the most northern of the 

 Philippines, the number of kinds is very limited. 



The great bat ( Vespertilio Vampyrus) has spread 

 to the most westerly islands, in the northern pro- 

 vince to the Mariana islands, and in the southern 

 to the Friendly isles. A small kind occurs in the 

 Sandwich islands. The animal of the class Mam- 

 malia, which is the most widely spread, is a rat, 

 which is met with every where, even on Easter 

 Island. 



The land-birds are pretty numerous and various 

 in the high islands, and many kinds of them seem 

 to have no other country. 



A kind of crocodile has spread as far as the Pelew 

 islands. At Eap such an animal has been but once 

 seen, and in the southern province in the Fidje 

 islands. (Mariner's Tonga, vol. i. p. 327.) An ignon 

 is found further on, even to the Ladronesand Eap. 



All the islands are extremely poor in insects. 

 It is remarkable that the flea had not followed the 



