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But little was to be obtained by way of supplies from the 

 villlage. Coconuts and copra were plentiful, eggs and fowls 

 scarce: we could get plenty of bananas and one evening bought 

 from a canoe homeward bound from fishing, three splendid parrot 

 fish (Scar us sj).), weighing together between sixty and seventy 

 pounds for a dollar ! 



The jungle was intersected with paths leading to the arenga 

 palms and trying-down sheds and by shooting along them and in 

 the cocopalms we obtained a new squirrel (Scitirus abbotlii), a 

 pale form of S. notatus. 



After investigating the birds and mammals on several 

 occasions with good results, we devoted a morning to butterflies 

 getting about a dozen species round the village and along the 

 forest paths. The fauna of the island was neither numerous nor 

 diversified and on the morning of the 1 5th we moved the schooner 

 over to Pulo Wai, anchoring off its N. E. coast. 



Pulo Wai. 



This island is the most north-westerly of the group. It is 

 about two miles long and rises in several peaked hills attaining 

 near the eastern end a height of 1000 feet. Being farther from 

 the Kampong than the others it is least visited but plantations 

 of coconuts and bananas, plantains, yams and sweet pota- 

 toes are common on its hillsides, a good deal of which are cleared. 



It provided us with a handsome squirrel (Sciurus mimellus 

 sp. nov.) with black, chestnut and whits pelage — a dwarf form of 

 the well-known S. prevostii. 



A walk across the island proved very bad travelling but 

 from the hills a distant view was obtained of Gap Rock about 

 twelve miles to the northeast. This remarkable islet consists 

 solely of two huge boulders — the larger of which is 124 feet 

 above the water — lying on a flat platform of rock utterly 

 devoid of soil or vegetation. 



This was the last of the Tambelans visited and I will there- 

 fore conclude this notice of them with a list of the principal 

 collections. 



Mammals. 



1. Macacus pumilus, sp. nov. 



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