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Identifier: countriesofworld04brow (find matches)
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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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 landmammals in common with it, thus proving clearly that at one time they must have been
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39 IHK MOSylK l)F SUEUAliAl.IA. liATAVIA, JAVA. INDO-MALAYSIA: ITS ANl.MAI.S. 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

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