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advancing culture more and more into the interior of the island, 

 abandoning coastal areas where it was previously common. 



Weber (1890-91, pp. 112-113) gives the following information, 

 without differentiating between the two species now recognized : 



Hitherto this curious animal has been known only from North-Celebes. 

 But without question it is spread over the whole island. I heard of it 

 first ... in South-Celebes, where the Prince of Sidenreng told me that it 

 was found in the central part of Celebes. Afterwards . . . different people 

 told me, that it was met with in Bingkoka, one of the provinces of the 



FIG. 52. Common Anoa (Anoa depressicornis) 



principality of Luwu, situated in the south-eastern peninsula of Celebes. 

 Here it extends up to the small island of Kubuna, south of island Muna near 

 the well known island Buton. . . . 



Also on the south-western peninsula of Celebes Anoa is living, but as far 

 as I could make out only on the peak of Bonthain. . . . 



The fact, that Anoa is spread over the whole island of Celebes, although 

 it is wanting in many places, is of much interest. . . . 



From 1893 to 1903 P. and F. Sarasin (1905, vol. 1, pp. 67, 73, 

 154, 159, 170; vol. 2, pp. 6, 48) encountered the Anoa or its tracks 

 in various places. It was evidently locally common in northern 

 Celebes at that period, although it had disappeared from the vicinity 

 of Sonder, south of Menado, since that area had been put largely 

 under cultivation. The Sarasins also reported the Anoa about Palu 

 and Lindu Lake (in the northwestern part of central Celebes) , and 

 spoke of many occurring in the Konaweha Basin (southeastern 

 peninsula) [evidently fergusoni in the latter area]. 



