CHAP. II.] 



INW-MJIAT ISLANDS. 



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owing to the limited ranrre of most of these animals, bo 

 few are absolutely identical. 



Of Camivora, thirty-three species are known from the 

 Indo-Malay region, of which aliont eight are foutid also 

 in Bnrmah and India. Among these are the tiger, leopard, 

 a tiger-cat, civets and otter; whUe out of the twenty 

 genera of Malayan Caniivora, thirteen are represented in 

 India by more or closely allied species. As an ex- 

 ample, the curious Malayan glnttr»n (Helictis orientalis) is 

 K^presented in Northern India by a clostily allied specie? 

 Helictis nipalensis. 



The hoofed animals ai-e twenty-two in number, of which 

 about seven extend into Burmali and India. All the deer 

 are of peculiar species, except two, which range from 

 Malacca into India, Of the cattle, one Indian species 

 reaclu^s ^lalacca, while the Bos sondaicus of Java aud 

 Borneo is also found in Siani and Buruiah. A goat-like 

 animal is found in Suraatm which has its represeulative 

 in India ; while the two-homed rliinoccros of Sumatra 

 and the single-horned species of Java, long supposed to be 

 peculiar to these islands, are now both ascertained to 

 exist in Bnrmah, Pegu, and Moidmein, The elephant of 

 Sumatm, Borneo, and Malacca ia now considei-ed to be 

 identiciil with that of Ceylon aud India, 



In all other groups of JlamniaUa the same general 

 phenomena recur. A few species are identical with those 

 of India. A much larger number are closely alUed or 

 representative forms ; while there are always a small 

 number of peculiar genera, consisting of animals unlike 

 those found in any other part of the world. There are 

 about fifty bats, of winch less than one-fourth are Indian 

 species ; thirty-four Kodents (squirrels, rats, &c.), of which 

 six or eight only are Indian ; and ten Insectivora, with one 

 exception peculiar to the Malay region. The squirrels are 

 very abundant and chai'acteristic, only two species out of 

 twenty-five extending into Siam and Bumiah. The 

 Tnpaias are curious insect^^ters, which closely resemble 

 squirrels, and are almost confined to the Malay islands, as 

 are the small featlier-tailed Ptilocerus lowii of Borneo, 

 aud the curious long-snouted and naked-tailed Gymnurus 

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