The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . 39 IHK MOSylK l)F liATAVIA, JAVA. INDO-MALAYSIA: ITS 257 connected, us, with scarcely an exception, these species could not traverse an even muchnarrower water passage. Probably the separation took place in a very recent geologicalperiod. The birds of the islands bear a close resemblance to those of India, though very fewof tlioiii arc identical with those of that country; yet wc have seen that even narrow. .• «I leo of
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . 39 IHK MOSylK l)F liATAVIA, JAVA. INDO-MALAYSIA: ITS 257 connected, us, with scarcely an exception, these species could not traverse an even muchnarrower water passage. Probably the separation took place in a very recent geologicalperiod. The birds of the islands bear a close resemblance to those of India, though very fewof tlioiii arc identical with those of that country; yet wc have seen that even narrow. .• «I leo of (ir .\ II R t r !t I I x MAr OF TIIK MALAY AllCllirELAOO, ETf. water straits prevent the passage of laud birds from island to island. On the littleisland of Banca, fifteen miles from the eastern extremity of Sumatra, and celebratedfor its tin mines, there are several species of animals entirely different from those ofthe adjacent coast, and some, perhaps, even peculiar to it, rendering probable what,from geological appearances had been long suspected, that Banca, though lying so closeto Sumatra, had not been recently separated from it, but is actually older than the153 258 THE COUNTKIES OF THE WOULD. great land mass so near it. Again, the islands of Java and Sumatra, tbousjli lying soclose together, hear evidence in their animal life of having been long separated, while, onthe other hand, Borneo and Sumatra show a much closer similarity in their denizens. Thereare inanv peculiarities about tlie distribution of life in these islands. I shall notice oneo
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