292 | Siz Weeks in Southern Mindanao. 
then a black long-tailed animal as large as a cat, and of the weasel 
family. After these he brought us jungle fowl, colored like 
Spanish game fowls, and a few of the large ground pigeons, with a 
- bloody spot in the white breast, called by the Spanish pemhalada, 
stabbed with a knife. Whenever we could find time from our 
work of preparing the material purchased we made visits to the 
forest, and added many species not found by the native hunters. 
Two hollow trees inhabited by Galeopithecus were found and 
chopped down, and from one of these eight were captured and there 
were others which escaped. They were old females, and young in all 
stages of growth, so that they would appear to breed the year 
round. We kept several of them living for some time, and had 
a chance to observe their habits. One specimen of the curious 
little Tarsius was brought in. It is probably not rare here, but 
from its nocturnal habits not readily found. The common 
monkey, Cynomolgus, was very abundant and tame. We got two 
species of squirrel, the little Sciurus philippinensis, of a dark 
brown color, not larger than a mouse, but a true tree squirrel, with 
large bushy tail. Besides this we found a larger red brown one, 
which does not seem to be described. Besides those mammals 
mentioned we got a rat and a large shrew, making nine besides the 
bats. Deer and wild pigs were plenty, but we got none during our 
stay. Two crocodiles six and a half feet long but apparently 
adult, were brought in living, tied hand and foot, and were tied to 
a post in the open space beneath the tribunal. A. large monitor, 
different in species from the Paraqua ones, was abundant, as was 
also a plant-eating lizard, of about the same size, four or five feet in 
length, and called by the natives ibit. It is called good food, — 
like the plant-eating iguanos of South America, 
Among the lizards was, a flying one, Draco, abundant on the 
coco trees, and differing in size and color from those observed in 
Paraqua. On opening the wing membranes one could not help 
noticing a likeness to a butterfly, both in shape of wings and in 
the coloring of nulattix blue with red spots. This case of § 
resemblance must be added to the long list of cases of protective a 
coloring. This peculiar coloring may aid the lizard both m 
escaping its enemies, the hawks, and in capturing its own food of 
insects. One evening one of our hunters came dragging 10 ê 
python over twelve feet long and as thick as a man’s arm, which he 
