78 CURISE IN THE SOUTHERN CHINA SEA. 



we invested in sarongs from their trade-stock. Having with 

 the assistance of these men — who contrasted greatly with the 

 islanders in many ways — brought the canoe business to an end 

 we left Jimaja on September 28th and sailing round the south 

 of the island reached Singapore on October 8th via Tiuman 

 where we spent a few days. 



The principal result of our visit to the A nambas lay in the 

 first record of the animals and birds found in them, an outcome 

 of our investigations being also the description of many new 

 insular species. So far as is represented by the collections the 

 mammal fauna of these and of the other islands visited consists 

 of local forms of the widely distributed and characteristic 

 Malayan types. Each island and group of islands has its re- 

 presentative of the common genera and species ; but in scarcely 

 an instance is an insular race identical with that occurring on 

 another island, unless of the same group, or on the mainland. 



Mammals of the Anambas. 



Macacus pumilus. 



Nyctecebus tardigradis. 



Emballonura anambensis, sp. no v. 



Rhinolophus minutus, sp. nov. 



R. rouxii? 



Tupaia chrysomella, sp. nov. 



Paradoxurus, sp. (reported). 



Tragulus, 2 sp. (reported). 



Sciurus anambensis, sp. nov. 



S. tenuis. 



Funambulus castaneus, sp. nov. 



Ratufa anambre, sp. nov. 



Mus siantanicus, sp. nov. 



M. strepitans, sp. nov. 



M. anambee, sp. nov. 



M. flaviventer, sp. nov. 



Birds. 



The birds obtained were all common peninsular forms and 

 are enumerated below. 



Malacopterum magnirostra. 



Jour Straits Branch 



