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ill the coimtries wliich sun-ound Celf^lies, but are citlier 

 quite Lsolated, or iiidicatii relations with such distant 

 legLous as New Guinea, Australia, India, or Africa. Other 

 cases of similar remote aliiuities between the productions 

 of distant countries no doiibt exist, but in no spot upon 

 the globe that I am yet acquainted with, do so many of 

 ihem occur togetlier, or do tliey form so decided a feature 

 in the natural history of the country. 



The Manmialia of Celebes are very few in number, con- 

 sisting of fourteen terrestrial species and seven bats. Of 

 the former no less than eleven are peculiar, including two 

 which there is reason to believe may have been recently 

 cai-ried into other islands by man. Three species which 

 have a tolerably wide range in the Archipelago, are — - 

 1, The curious Lemur, Tarsius spectrum, which is found in 

 all the islands as far westward as Malacca ; 2, the common 

 Malay Civet, Yiverra tangalunga, which has a still wider 

 ninge ; and 3, a Deer,, which seems to be the same as tlie 

 llusa hippelaphus of Java, and was probably introduced 

 by man at an early period. 



The more characteristic species are as follow • — 



CjmopithecQs nigrescens, a curious baboon-like monkey 

 if not a true baboon, which abounds all over Celebes, and is 

 found nowhere else but in the one small island of Batchian, 

 into whicli it has probably been introduced accidentally. 

 An allied species is found in the Phihppinea, but in no 

 other island of the Archipelago is there anything resem- 

 bhng them. These creatures are about the size of a 

 spaniel, of a jet-black colour, and have the projecting 

 dog-like muzzie and overhanging brows of the baboons. 

 They have large red callosities and a short fleshy tail, 

 scarcely an inch long and hardly visible. They go in 

 large bands, li%'ing chiefly in the trees, but often descend- 

 ing on the ground and ix>bbing gardens and orchards. 



Anoa depressicornis, the Sapi-utan, or wild cow of the 

 lltalays, is an animal which has been the cause of much 

 controversy, as to whether it should be classed as ox, 

 buffalo, or antelope. It is smaller than any other wild 

 cattle, and in many respects seems to approach some of 

 the ox-like antelopes of Africa. It ia found only in the 

 mountains, and is said never to inhabit places where theie 



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