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high peak but had no opportunity to visit it. By all the natives here 

 the Anoa was known and called „Soko" and many curious stories 

 were told. about it. One of my friends has seen a pair of horns from 

 an Anoa shot on the peak of Bonthain. As this animal is so easily 

 distinguished , there can not be any error about it. 



The fact, that Anoa is spread over the whole island of Celebes, 

 although it is wanting in many places, is of much interest, as 

 two other mammals characteristic of Celebes: Babirusa alfurus and 

 Cynopithecus niger, really seem to belong only to North-Celebes. At 

 least in the southern and central part , as far as I visited them, no one 

 knew anything about them. I am not quite sure, that this is not also the 

 case with Baradoxurus musschenbroekii , although I am convinced 

 myself, that it is restricted to the northern part of the island, in 

 the same way as Macacus maurus belongs to South-Celebes. 



This difference between North- and South-Celebes, which can be 

 proved by many other facts (difference in occurrence of Sciuri, birds 

 etc.) is very striking and in agreement with geological differences. 



Edentata. 



Manis. 



Manis javanica Desmarest. 



Sumatra: Singkarah; ad. rf (147). 



Fort de Kock; ad. Q (165). 

 Java: Buitenzorg; two 9 (283, 247), one cf (249) and 9 (270) skeleton. 

 In one specimen I stated the weight of the brain as follows: 

 Length of head and body .... 37,5 cm. 

 length of tail .... 29 cm. 

 weight of the animal .... 1750 gr. 

 weight of the brain .... 9,5 gr. 

 Proportion of weight of brain to weight of body 0,543° /o . 

 The natives of West-Sumatra believe that there are three different 

 species of Manis, called Tenggiling bras, T. andjing and T. ikan. With- 

 out question these are however only three different stages of age The 

 meaning of Tenggiling bras is small Manis. Tenggiling andjing means 

 a dog ant-eater, distinguished by the presenceof hairs. Now the younger 

 stages are provided with hairs or bristles at the base of each scale. 

 The exposed portion of these hairs is worn away by abrasion in the 



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