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FAUNA OF THE MALAY ISLANDS AND PHILIPPINES 



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Pen-Tailed Omitting mention of the bats, as being of no very special interest, 



Tree-snrew. anc j me rely referring to the occurrence of a species of flying lemur, 



or cobego (Galeopithecus phttippinensis), in the Philippines, and of the largest of 



r < the tree-shrews (Tupaia 



tana) in Borneo, attention 

 must be concentrated on 

 the remarkable pen-tailed 

 tree-shrew (Ptilocercus 

 lotvi), the sole representa- 

 tive of a type long supposed 

 to be peculiar to Borneo, 

 but now known to occur 

 also in the Malay Penin- 

 sula. From ordinary tree- 

 shrews this curious little 

 animal, which is about the 

 size of a mouse, differs by 

 • f m*--)H&& ^ . ..^«'V^'"" •-; the terminal third of the 



otherwise short-haired long 

 tail bearing on opposite 

 sides two rows of elongated 

 hairs resembling the vanes 

 of a feather. 



A peculiar 

 generic type 

 of gymnura (Podogym- 

 nura) has been obtained 

 from Mount Aboo in Mind- 

 anao, Philippine group. 



Among the 

 beasts-of- 

 prey, the tiger is found in 

 Sumatra and Java, but not 

 in Borneo or the other 

 islands, while the leopard 

 also occurs in Borneo, al- 

 though, like the tiger, it is 

 unknown in Celebes. The 

 rare Bornean bay cat (Fcl is 

 badia) is restricted to the 

 island from which it takes its name, and is of a uniform bright chestnut-brown colour, 

 except for a white streak down the under surface of the terminal half of the tail. 



The civet-cats are represented by Vircrra tanqalv/nqa, which 

 Other Carnivora. . 1 ' . 



inhabits Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and the Philippines, and is also 



found in the Moluccas, its distributional area thus extending farther east than 



that of any other member of the group. Borneo is the home of the banded civet 



Gymnura. 



Cats. 



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TAKSIER. 



