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Title: The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & co.
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broad, there are cockatoos, honeysuckere, and brush turke3s.We thus pass in two hours from one region of the earth to another differing as widelyin their animal life as does Europe and America. The contrast between the more widelyseparated islands of the two groups is still more remarkable. In Java and Borneo, for instance,the forests are alive with many kinds of monkeys, wild cat, deer, civets, otters, and squirrels.In Celebes and the Moluccas, we find none of them—scarcely a land quadruped, indeed—except the prehensile-tailed Ciiscns, or Eastern opossum—a species of deer and a wild pig,which are met with, being of recent introduction. Of the -J-JO species of land birdsdescribed from Java and Borneo, ten only are found in Celebes, while lUU of them are common THE MALAY AKCHIPELAGO: ITS ANIMALS •ZA3 to Jiiva and Borneo, thinif^-b the Stniit of Macassai-, wliich divides Borneo froni Celebes, islUiuch narrower than the Java Sea which lies between Java and Borneo. So wide is the
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THE IROX-WOOD TREE (Eu»fd«rori(l Zuageri) OF NEW OlINEA. difference between the two groups of Malay Islands that a traveller may go to sleep inAustralia and wake up in Asia, or, in sailing from Lombok to Bali, may pass from one((uarter of the world to another without losing sight of either, and yet, until he examinesthe animals in the woods, be unconscious that in such a short time so remarkable a transition150 o;)l THE COUNTRIES OF THE WOULD. hns bcun maJo. In one group we have woodpeckers, trogons, fruit-thrushes, leaf-thruslio-:,.and barbels meeting the eye. In the other we see not one f these, their jilaee l)eing-taken bv lioneysuekers and lories. Another peeuliaritj- about these Malay Islands is that,contrary to what miglit have been expected, physical surroundings seem to have had littleor no effect on the animal life. The climate of the two groups of islands may be exactlythe same, and yet their animals are different. Throughout many of them run a line ofvolca

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