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these creatures for the purpose of obtaining the perfume, 
of which they are very fond, it has probably been in¬ 
troduced by them. The only other quadrupeds are bats, 
which are abundant, a shrew, and several marsupials 
moluccan cuscus (U. ornatus ). 
of the genus Cuscus, as well as a small flying-opossum 
resembling those found in Australia. If, therefore, we 
leave out of the list those species which there is reason 
to think may have been introduced by man, we find an 
excessive poverty of mammals, hardly to be equalled 
anywhere else in the world under similar conditions. 
