FOR C UPINE — RABBIT— CUSCUS 



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Porcupines and The porcupines are represented in Borneo by Giinther's porcupine 



Rabbit. {Tricky s guentheri), a relative of the brush-tailed group, but with shorter 



spines and parallel-sided tail-bristles. The Sumatran rabbit (Nesoiagus nitscheri) 



Cuscus. 



is nearly related to the Assam spiny rabbit; 

 the group being known only by these two 

 species, and a third from the Liukiu Islands. 

 The great majority of the 

 mammals of the Malay Islands 

 and the Philippines are related to those 

 of the mainland, but some (with their allies 

 of the Peninsula) exhibit a remarkable 

 affinity with West African types. When 

 Celebes is reached, indications of relation- 

 ship to the Australian fauna are exhibited 

 by the presence of the black cuscus (Phal- 

 anger ursinus), a member of an otherwise 

 exclusively Australasian group. 



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MALAY SWIFT AXD ITS EDIBLE NESTS. 



Perching and Among birds peculiar to the islands under consideration, atten- 



Picarian Birds. ^j on mav g rs ^ b e directed to the white-necked starling (Streptocitta 



albicollis) of Celebes, a bird about the size of a thrush, with shining bluish black 



plumage, relieved by a white ring round the neck, and with long narrow feathers 



