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SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I9I4 



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Black macacus monkeys are generally common and at a distance look like 

 black dogs. About the edges of the forest I have seen many birds, but in the 

 deep forest I have seen very few. 



Photographs I can probably send via Gorontalo. The chief difficulty in 

 making pictures here is the dirty, warm water. 



No specimens from Celebes have yet been received in Washington ; 

 but all the Bornean material is at hand, forming a very important 

 addition to the National Museum collection. It includes 310 



Fig. 24. — Gymnura, an animal related to the European hedgehog, though its 

 body is covered with coarse hair instead of spines. Length : head and body, 

 14 inches; tail, n 1 /^ inches. Samarinda, Borneo. Photograph by Raven. 



mammals taken in 1914, making total of 1,613 ; and 261 birds taken 

 in 19 14, making total of 1,440. 



Some of the photographs alluded to by Mr. Raven are here 

 reproduced. 



EXPEDITIONS TO THE FAR EAST 

 Mr. Arthur de C. Sowerby has continued his explorations in 

 Manchuria and northeastern China. Interesting specimens received 

 from him are two wapiti bucks and a roe deer. A recent letter 

 announces the capture of two bears and a peculiar rabbit. 



