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Celebes. Rats were fairly common and I have gotten about seven species. 

 Scmrus leucoiiins is also common as is Sciurus murinus. but I have seen no 

 other squirrels. Big game is scarce and I have shot nothing larger than the 

 black monkeys, of which I have a good series (15) and feel quite sure that you 

 will find them to be a different variety than those I formerly collected. The 

 crest seems much longer, the callosities are a different shape and the face nar- 

 rower. [They are Cyiiopithccus (fig. 34), while those previously obtained were 

 Magus (fig. 33)-] 



Fk;. 3L — A mother and her two daughters, natives of 

 Temboan, Celebes. Nearly all of the natives of Mina- 

 hassa are Christians. 



This is not just the bat season, the natives claim, as it has been raining almost 

 steadily and there is no fruit about. T have got five species ^ bats, among 

 them five specimens of a large-eared Mcgadcrma which is new to my collec- 

 tion. In all I have something over five himdred specimens, most of which are 

 mammals ; also I have got quite a number of land shells. 



I am now about to start for Goenoeng Klabat, as with much trouble I have 

 managed to get fairly dry the specimens on hand. 



