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Title: The Malay Archipelago : the land of the oranguatan, and the bird of paradise. A narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature
Identifier: afj1365.0001.001.umich.edu
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
Subjects: Natural history; Ethnology
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: University of Michigan
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Of the Moluccas. 899 everywhere eat their flesh, and as their motions are so slow, easily catch them by climbing; so that it is wonderful they have not been exterminated. It may be, however, that their dense woolly fur protects them from birds of prey, and the islands they live in are too thinly inhabited for man to be able to exterminate them. The figure represents Cuscus or- natus, a new species discovered by me in Batchian, and which
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cuscus OKNATUS. also inhabits Ternate. It is peculiar to the Moluccas, while the two other species which inhabit Ceram are found also in 'New Guinea and Waigiou. In place of the excessive poverty of mammals which char- acterizes the Moluccas, we have a very rich display of the feathered tribes. The number of species of birds at present known from the various islands of the Moluccan group is 265,

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  • bookauthor:Wallace_Alfred_Russel_1823_1913
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • booksubject:Ethnology
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