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the ape, the anoa, and the habirusa, are altogether 

 peculiar.^ jSTo animals at all nearly allied to them 

 are to be found in any of the Asiatic islands, or, in 

 fact, anywhere else, if we except an allied form of the 

 anoa which exists in the island of Mindoro in the 

 Philippines ; and we are thus led to speculate on their 



THE ANOA {Anoa dcjircssicornis). 



transmission from a very remote epocli, when Celebes 

 formed part of a continent which disappeared before the 

 existing Asiatic islands were formed ; for on any other 

 supposition it is most difficult to understand how these 



^ It is true that the former occurs on the island of Batjan, and the 

 liabirusa at the N.E. point of Burn, but it is most probable that they 

 have been introduced by the agency of man. 



