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these creatures for the purpose of obtaining the perfume, 

 of which they are very fond, it has probably been in- 

 troduced by them. The only other quadrupeds are bats, 

 which are abundant, a shrew, and several marsupials 



MOLUCCAN cuscus (C. omatus). 



of the genus Cuscus, as well as a small flying-opossum 

 reseml^liug those found in Australia. If, therefore, we 

 leave out of the list those species which there is reason 

 to think may have Ijeen introduced l>y man, we find an 

 excessive poverty of mammals, hardly to l»e equalled 

 anywhere else in the world under similar conditions. 



