The Cambridge natural history . tcnd^yv GcoQ^T^^y* Map ]3 ? BeJwccn piif](.s 308 nnd .Wf). taadon MsamDiui & c«. TAVA AND BORNEO JO9 It seems not impossiljle, from the point of view of the landMolhisca only, that the Sunda Islands may at one time havestretched nuich farther into the Bay of Bengal, prolonged, per-haps, into what are now the Andaman and Nicobar groups,while Ceylon and the western side of the Deccan, united into onecontinuous piece of land, and possibly separated from N. India Ijya wide stretch of sea, extended farther eastw^ard in a long island,or series of islands.
The Cambridge natural history . tcnd^yv GcoQ^T^^y* Map ]3 ? BeJwccn piif](.s 308 nnd .Wf). taadon MsamDiui & c«. TAVA AND BORNEO JO9 It seems not impossiljle, from the point of view of the landMolhisca only, that the Sunda Islands may at one time havestretched nuich farther into the Bay of Bengal, prolonged, per-haps, into what are now the Andaman and Nicobar groups,while Ceylon and the western side of the Deccan, united into onecontinuous piece of land, and possibly separated from N. India Ijya wide stretch of sea, extended farther eastw^ard in a long island,or series of islands. Java, from its MoUusca, does not appear to hold the compara-tively isolated position wdiich its mammals and birds seem toindicate. Borneo, on the other hand, is more Siamese than Javnor Sumatra in respect of a group whose metropolis is Siam,namely, the tubed operculates ; for wliile that section is repre-sented by 3 species in Sumatra and only 2in Java, in Borneo it has as many as 19,BJiiostoma not occurring in the two formerislands at all. Alycaeus, Lagochilus, Pupind,and Cydoi^horus are fou
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