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EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



found in a crevice of the limestone hills at Paku, but at present 

 it is absent from all that region adjacent to the watershed of the 

 Landak River. According to Wallace, it has a wide distribution 



FIG. 19. Orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus). From photo of specimen in 

 Philadelphia Zoo. 



in the low country, inhabiting many districts not only on the south- 

 west and southeast, but also on the northeast and northwest coasts, 

 but of its more exact local distribution at the present time little 

 information is at hand. 



In Sumatra, the only place outside of Borneo where the Orang 

 is native, it is now confined to the former state of Atjeh, which 



