134 Prof. Dr. Max Weber on the 



If we exclude tlie Chiroptera, Celebes has the following 

 land-mammals : — 



Cynopithecus niger, Desm. Mus Meyeri, Jent. 



Macacns mauriis, F. Cuv. Faberi, Je}it. 



Cerocebus cynomolgus, Schreb. deciimanus, Pall. 



Tarsius fuscomanus, Fisch. rattus, L. 



Sciurus murinus, Miill. ^- Schl. celebensis, Gray. 



rubiventer, Miill. i^- Snhl. Echiotrix leucura, Gray. 



leucomus, Midi. ^- Schl. Paradoxunis Musscheiibroekii, 



Prevosti, Desm. Schl. 



— — notatus, Bodd. Viverra tangalunga, Gray. 



Weberi, Jent. Anoa depressicornis, Snii/h. 



Acanthion javanicuni, F. Cuv. Sas celebensis, Miill. 



Mus Beccarii, Jenf. Babiru-^sa alfurus, Less. 



Musschenbroekii, Je7it. Russa russa, Miill. 



xanthurus, Gray. Pbalauger celebensis, Gray. 



Hellwaldii, Je?if. urainus, Temm. 



callitlirichus, 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. Phalanger maculatus, St.-Hil. 



Paradoxurus musanga, Gh-ay. 



Bali and Lombok, are only a few miles apai't, and are subject to the same 

 climatic conditions, the land-fauna characteristic of each is quite different ; 

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

 the Indian Itorneo to the Australiau Celebes. The decided coutrast iu 

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

 one of the most striking chorological arguments of Transformi.-mus " 

 (" schlagendsteu chorologischeu Argumenten des Transformisnms ''). 

 HfEckel (' 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 b}- man into Celebes, perhaps also the pig 

 (iS'MS celebensis) ; " it may, of course, have had an opportunity of swimming 

 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 ftiscomcmns 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 A ustralian 

 species," there remain three species of Phalanger, the only animals, as 

 the author himself confesses, peculiar to the Australian region. One a-sks 

 with astonislmient why Phalangers did not como 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 tliat an author who 

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

 forgets two &'^Qa {Cercocebus cynomolf/us and Macucus maurus) and two 

 beasts of prey {Paradoxurus miLtanga and P. Alusschenbrockii). These 

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

 Indian region.'' 



