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the ape, the anoa, and the babirusa, are altogether 
peculiar. 1 No animals at all nearly allied to them 
are to be found in any of the Asiatic islands, or, in 
fact, anywhere else, if we except an allied form of the 
anoa which exists in the island of Mindoro in the 
Philippines; and we are thus led to speculate on their 
the anoa (Anoa dejoressicornis). 
transmission from a very remote epoch, when Celebes 
formed part of a continent which disappeared before the 
existing Asiatic islands were formed; for on any other 
supposition it is most difficult to understand how these 
1 It is true that the former occurs on the island of Batjan, and the 
babirusa at the N\E. point of Buru, but it is most probable that they 
have been introduced by the agency of man. 
