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ISLAND LIFE 



PAllT II 



19. Ursus arctos. var. A peculiar variety of the European brown bear 



which inhabits also Amoorland and Kamschatka. It is the Ursus 

 ferox of the Fauna Japonica. 



20. Ursus japonicus. A peculiar species allied to the Himalayan and For- 



raosan species, learned U. tihetanus in the Fauna Japonica. 



21. Meles anakuma. Differs from the European and Siberian badgers in 



the form of the skull. 



22. Mustela hraehyura. A peculiar martin found also in the Kurile 



Islands. 



23. Mustela imlampus. The Japanese sable. 



24. Putorius Sibiricus, Also Sibt^ria and China. This is the if. itatsi of 



the Fauna Japonica according to Dr. Gray. 



25. Lutra vulgaris. 



26. Pusa lutris. The sea-otter of California and Kamschatka. 



27. Canis hodophylax. The Japanese wolf. 



28. Vulpes japonica. A peculiar fox. Cants vulpes of Fauna Japonica. 



29. Nyctereutes procyonoides. The racoon-dog of N. China and Amoor- 



land. 



30. Lepus hrachyurus. A peculiar hare. 



31. Sciurus lis. A peculiar squirrel. 



32. Pteromys leucogenys. The white-cheeked flying squirrel. 



33. Sciuru'ptarus momoga. Peculiar. 



34. Myoxus japonicus. A peculiar dormouse. M. elegans of the Fauna 



Japonica ; M. javanicus, Schinz {Synopsis Mammalium, ii. p. 530). 



35. Mus argenteus. China. 



36. Mus molossinus, 



37. M. nezumi. 



38. M. speciosus. 



39. Microtus sp. A vole of doubtful affinities. 



40. Cervus siJca. A peculiar deer allied to C. pseudaxis of Formosa and 



C. mantchuricus of Northern China. 



41. Nemorhedus crispa. A goat-like antelope allied to N, Sumatranus of 



Sumatra, and N. Swinhoei of Formosa. 



42. Sus leucomystax. A wild boar allied to S. taevanus of Formosa. 



We thus find that no less than twenty-eight out of the 

 forty-two Japanese mammals are peculiar, and if we omit 

 the aerial bats (nine in number), as well as the marine 

 sea-otter, we shall have remaining only thirty-two strictly 

 land mammalia, of which twenty-six are peculiar, or 

 nearly five- sixths of the whole. Nor does this represent 

 all their speciality ; for we have a mole superficially 

 resembling but quite distinct from an American species ; 

 another mole forming a peculiar genus ; an antelope 

 whose nearest allies are in Formosa and Sumatra, and a 

 water-shrew whose nearest allies are in the Himalayas 

 and Borneo. The importance of these facts will be best 

 understood when we have examined the corresponding 

 affinities of the birds of Japan. 



