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species approaching to the Wolf by its size, its long and coarse hair, its 

 straight large ears, and its lengthened muzzle. In Peru the greater num- 

 ber of the Dogs belong to the hairless or Egyptian variety ; a species of 

 Arvicola was also noticed common ; and a Gerhillus was said to be fre- 

 quently met with in the neighbourhood of Piura, of which no specimen 

 could be procured. In the South Sea Islands the only quadrupeds are 

 the Rat, a second large species of Miis, the Dog, and the Hog: the 

 latter is of the Siamese breed, and is frequently allowed to run wild in 

 the woods, in which circumstances its tusks become developed. 

 None ot the domestic animals attempted to be introduced by the mission- 

 aries have succeeded except the Goats, which seem capaple of being 

 acclimated with moderate care within the tropics. In the Island of 

 Oualan the Pteropus Keraudreni, Temm., and the Norway Rat were 

 observed; and in New Ireland, teeth of the Babyrusa were obtained, 

 cis was also the Phalangista cavifrons, Temm. In Waigiou, one of 

 the Phihppine Islands, the Phalangista maculata, Temm., was extremely 

 plentiful, and another Marsupial animal, apparently an undescribed spe- 

 cies, of the size of a rat with grey hair and a very slender muzzle, called 

 Kaltibu by the natives, was obtained, although subsequently lost by 

 shipwreck off the Cape of Good Hope. A large species of Deer has 

 multiplied in Bourou, one of the Moluccas, to a great extent; and the 

 Pteropus edidis, the flesh of which is delicate, is met with in abundance 

 in the woods. Here also exists in the interior the remarkable Babyrusa, 

 no specimen of which was procured; but several individuals were sub- 

 sequently seen in Java, whither they had been brought by the Governor 

 with the intention of sending them to Holland : they died on the voyage, 

 and their skins were not preserved. Hence the museums of Europe were 

 still without specimens of this interesting animal, even up to the period 

 when M. Gaimard despatched, from the voyage in which he is now 

 engaged, a living individual to the Paris Menagerie. In the description 

 given there is little additional information to that derived from Valentyn : 

 the skin is hard, wrinkled, and forming folds, with only a few scattered 

 hairs, and has some resemblance to that of the Tapir. It is very common 

 in the marshes of the interior of Bourou, in the territory of the Alfou- 

 rous. New Guinea furnished the voyagers with a new species of Sus; 

 and they once saw a Galeopithecus or large Pteromys. The Dc^ of New 



