The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . Sumatraand Malacca, the long-nosed monkey of Borneo, and various species of lemurs. The tiger,leopard, tiger-cat, civet, otter, and a glutton may be noticed among the flesh devourers; * Wiilliicc: Malay Anhipclagci, p. 210. In tliis wurk will bo foiuid a very full account of andBcvinj of the other islands, wliiili wu can only mention. 2J0 THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. and of the thirty-tlirce species eight are also fouml iu India and Burmah. Of the twe
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . Sumatraand Malacca, the long-nosed monkey of Borneo, and various species of lemurs. The tiger,leopard, tiger-cat, civet, otter, and a glutton may be noticed among the flesh devourers; * Wiilliicc: Malay Anhipclagci, p. 210. In tliis wurk will bo foiuid a very full account of andBcvinj of the other islands, wliiili wu can only mention. 2J0 THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. and of the thirty-tlirce species eight are also fouml iu India and Burmah. Of the tweut^;l animals, seven extend into Burmah and India; the elephant of Sumatra, Borneo, andMalacca is also identical willi that of Ceylon and India. Iu all ntlier groups, writesthe historian of the Archipelago, the same general phenomena occur. A few species areidentical with those of India, a much larger number are closely allied or representativeforms, while there are always a small number of i^eculiar genera, consisting of animalsunlike those found in any other part of the world. There are about fifty bats, oF which. A FAMILY OF ORAXG-UT.\XS (Simio salyrus) OF BORNEO. less than one-fourth are Indian species; thirty-four rodents (squirrels, rats, &c.), of which sixor eight only are Indian; and ten Insectivora, with one exception, peculiar to the ^lalayregion. The squirrels are very abundant and characteristic, only two species out oftwenty-five extending into Siam and Burmah. The tupaias are curious insect-caters whichclosely resemble squirrels, and are almost confined to the Malay Islands, as are the smallfeather-tailed Ptilocerus Lovii of Borneo and the curious long-snouted and naked-tailedGi/munrits liafflesii. In the Malay Peninsula, now a part of Continental Asia, there are forty-eight species of laud mammals common to it and the neighbouring islands. Again, to takeonly one instance, Java, though distant 250 miles from Borneo, has twenty-two species of landmamma
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