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ally is the antelopean buffalo of Celebes (.Anoa depressi- 
cornis). This interesting animal, which has only 
recently been obtained by Professor Steere’s expedition, 
is confined to the island of Mindoro. There are 
no tapirs, rhinoceroses, or elephants. Even the small 
rodents are very scarce, there being only five squirrels, 
one flying squirrel, a porcupine, and two or three of the 
rat tribe. The flying mammals, on the other hand, are 
numerous, there being nearly thirty species of bats, many 
of which are peculiar. Some half-dozen insectivora only 
are known—the “flying lemur” ( Galeopithecus ), two or 
three shrews, and the curious squirrel-like Tupaia. The 
Edentata are represented by a Manis, which only occurs 
in Palawan. 
Altogether, although a few more may yet remain to 
be discovered, there are only twenty-three terrestrial 
mammals known to inhabit the Philippines, and of these 
several are confined to the island of Palawan, which, as 
has already been stated, cannot be said, geographically 
speaking, to form a portion of the Philippine Archipelago. 
Java has nearly 100 mammals, of which more than half 
are terrestrial, and it is therefore remarkable that the 
Philippines with a larger area should have so few. 
The birds show many peculiarities and deficiencies 
when compared with those of the great islands of western 
Malaysia. To the revised list published by Captain 
Wardlaw Ramsay in the appendix to the Marquis of 
Tweeddale’s “ Ornithological Works,” Professor Steere has 
added 5 3 new species, bringing the total number of 
land birds to 303. And although many of these are 
subspecies, or species only slightly differentiated by more 
or less long-continued separation in different islands, the 
number is large as compared with the 270 odd species 
known from the much better explored island of Java. 
