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adult, as also stated by Anderson '), then it is called Tenggiling ikan 

 or fish ant-eater as having only scales. 



Marsüpialia. 

 Cuscus. 



Cascus celehensis Gray. 



Celebes: Goa near Macassar; a female with her young (327, 328). 



This species was flrst described in an extremely unsatisfactory way 

 by Gray from a young aniraal brought from Celebes by Mr. Wallace. 

 Jentink 2 ) in his valuable monograph of tho Genus Cuscus writes: „It 

 is a pity that we are in dubio as to the exact locality, where Wal- 

 lace gathered the specimen. It now is questionable if the species is 

 restricted to Northern Celebes or is spread over the whole island". 

 All the specimens in the Leyden Museum are from North-Celebes As 

 my specimen is from Goa, it is stated that its ränge of distributiou 

 is as far as the southern point of Celebes. 



The fullgrown female is long: 



head and body .... 33 cm. 

 tail .... 32,7 cm. 



It agrees exactly with the description given by Jentink. 



The young one is long: 



head and body .... 16,6 cm. 

 tail .... 12,8 cm. 



In colour it is quite different from the mother, as its general colour 

 is a chestnut, especially the uppersides are dark; there is however 

 no dark backstreak. 



1) Anderson: Westeru-Yunnan Exped., pag. lilt. 



2) Notes from the Leyden Museum. Vol. VII, pag. 106. 



