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high peak but had no opportunity to visit it. By all the natives here 
the Anoa was known and called „Soko”.and many curious stories 
were told about it. One of ray friends has seen a pair of horns from 
an Anoa shot on the peak of Bonthain. As this animal is so easily 
distinguished, there can not be any error about it. 
The fact, that Anoa is spread over the whole island of Celebes, 
although it is wanting in many places, is of much interest, as 
two other mammals characteristic of Celebes: Babirusa alfurus and 
Cynopithecus niger, really seem to belong only to North-Celebes. At 
least in the Southern and central part , as far as I visited them, no one 
knew anything about them. I am not quite sure, that this is not also the 
case with Paradoxurus musschenbroekii , although I am convinced 
myself, that it is restricted to the northern part of the island, in 
the same way as Macacus maurus belongs to South-Celebes. 
This difference between North- and South-Celebes, which can be 
proved by many other facts (difference in occurrence of Sciuri, birds 
etc.) is very striking and in agreement with geological differences. 
Edentata. 
Manis. 
Manis javanica Desmarest. 
Sumatra: Singkarah; ad. cf* (147). 
Fort de Kock; ad. 9 (165). 
Java: Buitenzorg; two 9 (283. 247), one (249) and 9 (270) skeleton. 
In one specimen I stated the weight of the brain as follows: 
Length of head and body .... 37,5 cm. 
length of tail .... 29 cm. 
weight of the animal .... 1750 gr. 
weicht of the brain .... 9,5 gr. 
Proportion of weight of brain to weight of body 0,543°/ o . 
The natives of West-Sumatra believe that there are three different 
species of Manis, called Tenggiling bras, T. andjing and T. ikan. With- 
out question these are however only three different stages of age. The 
meaning of Tenggiling bras is small Manis. Tenggiling andjing means 
a dog ant-eater, distinguished by the presence of hairs. Now the younger 
stages are provided with hairs or bristles at the base of each scale. 
The exposed portion of these hairs is worn away by abrasion in the 
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