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filled, and ends with a loud, long, wailing cry, which re- 

 sounds throughout the leafy solitude to a great distance, 

 and is sometimes responded to from the depths of the 

 forest by another note as wild and melancholy. 



I saw the Galugo (Galeopithecus) both in Borneo and 

 Basilan in a wild state. It is crepuscular, and hangs 

 suspended during the day to the under surface of boughs 

 in the tops of high trees. When it moves, it seems to 

 shuffle and scramble among the leaves, and sometimes 

 drops suddenly from its elevated position. It feeds on 

 leaves, and the stomach of one I examined was filled with 

 remains of the foliage of Artocarpus, and other trees. 

 The Spanish Officers at Basilan shoot large numbers of 

 Galeopitheci for the sake of their beautiful skins, though 

 in an excursion I made with them we were not able to 

 procure a single specimen. At Sarawak I had a living 

 Galeopithecus ', or Fying Fox, in my possession, which was 

 procured on the occasion of felling some trees, in the top 

 of one of which the animal was suspended. It was very 

 inactive on the ground, and did not attempt to bite or 

 resist. Having probably received some internal injury, it 

 shortly died. On examining the body, I found it was a 

 female with young ; the embryos, two in number, appeared 

 to have the lateral expansion of the skin as in the adult. 



Among the numerous rare and interesting vegetable 

 productions to be found in Borneo, is the " Daum gundi," 

 or Monkey-cup of the Malays, the Pitcher plant of the 

 English (Nepenthes destillatoria, and other species,). It 

 is a very common plant in the Sarawak territory, where 

 it may be seen, with its curiously-formed leaves, clinging 

 to the trunks and foliage of the trees that fringe the 



