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regions as New Guinea, Australia, India, or Africa. Other 

 eases of similar remote affinities between the productions 

 of distant countries no doubt exist, but in no spot upon 

 the globe that I am yet acquainted with, do so many of 

 them occur together, or do they form so decided a feature 

 in the natural history of the country. 



The Mammalia of Celebes are very few in number, con- 

 sisting of fourteen terrestrial species and seven bats. Of 

 the former do less than eleven are peculiar, including two 

 which there is reason to believe may have been recently 

 carried into other islands by man. Three species which 

 have a tolerably wide range in the Archipelago, are — 

 1, The curious Lemur, Tarsius spectrum, which is found in 

 all the islands as far westward as Malacca ; 2, the common 

 Malay Civet, Viverra tangalunga, which has a still wider 

 range ; and 3, a Deer, which seems to be the same as the 

 Busa hippelaphus of Java, and was probably introduced 

 by man at an early period. 



The more characteristic species are as follow : — 

 Cynopithecus nigrescens, a curious baboon-like monkey 

 if not a true baboon, which abounds all over Celebes, and is 

 found nowhere else but in the one small island of Batchian, 

 into which it has probably been introduced accidentally. 

 An allied species is found in the Philippines, but in no 

 other island of the Archipelago is there anything resem- 

 bling them. These creatures are about the size of a 



