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OK THE GEOGEAPHICAL 
in no other island of Malayasia, but Sumatra and Borneo, 
where our travellers discovered it. Java^ the most beau- 
tiful and best known of the Malayasian isles, differs from the 
other regions of this grand archipelago in this, that it pro- 
duces several animals which are peculiar to it, whilst it wants 
a good number of those which are common in Sumatra, in 
Borneo, and even in the continent of Asia. We have no 
certain proofs that the Elephant ever lived in Java ; the 
Indian Tapir, the Orang-outan, the Semnopithecus nasicus, 
the Hylohates syndactylus, the Malayan Bear, the Innuus 
nemestrinus, and many other animals of Sumatra and 
Borneo, do not inhabit it. No Antelopes are found there. 
The Two-horned Bhinoceros of Sumatra is there represent- 
ed by a one-horned and very different species, which seems 
to have a great affinity with the Bhinoceros of continental 
Asia. The Stag of Sumatra is there represented by a less 
beautiful species, Cervus Bussa ; the Leopard of Sumatra 
and of Borneo, Felis macrocelis, is represented by a spe- 
cies resembling the African Leopard, but with very small 
spots, with a long tail, of a less size,^ which appears to be 
peculiar to Java. Exclusive of the Hylohates syndac- 
tylus of Sumatra, each of the isles or the principal re- 
gions of intertropical Asia, appears to sustain a single 
species of the genus Hylohates, more or less differing from 
each other. The Hylohates Lar of Sumatra is represent- 
ed at Java by the Wou-Wou, Hylohates leuciscus ; and 
this is replaced at Borneo by a race with darker tints, the 
Hylob. concolor, or H. Harlanii. None of these species 
ever appear to be found on the continent of India ; for the 
Hylohates which have been brought from Siam, and some 
* I can assert that all the Leopards of Java belong to the species called 
by M. Temminck, Felus Pardus, and that the true Leopard, which is 
distributed over a great part of Africa, from Barbary to the Cape of Good 
Hope, and which is said also to inhabit India, is never found in Java ; 
but there exist in that isle also individuals of the Pardus, with the tail 
much shorter than ordinary, and thus approaching nearer to the common 
Leopard ; this is in favour of the opinion that the Leopard of Java 
should be considered as a race or local variety of the other. This opi- 
nion is, on the other hand, strengthened by the existence of several 
local varieties or races of the Lion in Africa, and in Asia, of the Leo- 
pard of Africa, &c. 
