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ISLAND LIFE 



but local varieties and species probably introduced by 

 man have been omitted. 



List of the Terrestrial Mammalia of Celebes. 

 {Those in italics are peculiar.) 



CMacacus maurus. 

 ^ i J if cynomolgus. Perhaps introduced. 

 "^ 1 1 Cynopithecus niger. 



(3> " \TaTsius fuscus. Allied to T. spectrum of Borneo. 

 -.A ce /Crocidura fuliginosa. Tenasserim. 

 t-i o g (Pacliyura murina. China and Malaya. 

 f ^ rViverra tangalunga. Borneo, &c. 

 *S ^ J Paradoxurus hermaphroditus. Borneo, &c. 

 ^ g (^ ,, musschenhroeki, 



f Sciurus leucomus. 

 tonkeanus. 

 weberi. 



notatus. Borneo. 

 sarasinorum. 

 prevosti. Borneo, 

 murinus. Sumatra. 

 ruhrivenfer. 

 Mus neglectus. Borneo, 

 mulleri. Borneo, 

 ephippium. Borneo. 

 Triusschenhrocki. 

 callitrichus. 

 hellwaldi. 

 xanthurus. 

 faberi. 

 heccarii. 

 minahassa. 

 ccelestis. 



giganteus. ** The bandicoot." India, (introduced.) 

 Gymnomys celehensis. 



Leuomys meyeri. Allied to New Guinea and Philippine groups . 

 Craurothrix leucura. 

 Acanthion javanicum ? Malay Islands. 

 / Sus celebensis. 



Babirusa alfurus. The babirusa or " Hog-deer." 

 Cervus moluccensis. Moluccas. Allied to C. hippelaphus of 



Borneo. 

 , Anoa depressicornis. 

 Manis javanica ? Borneo and Java. 

 ^■^Pkalanger (^--) J™;} Marsupials of Papuan type. 



We have here forty well-marked species of truly 

 terrestrial mammals, of which twenty-three are peculiar. 

 This gives a proportion of nearly two-thirds, which is 



