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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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50 BOKNEO. the toes, which have been already modified for purposes of swimming and adhesive climbing, have been taken advantage of to enable an allied species to pass through the air like the flying lizard. It would appear to be a new species of the genus Rhacophorus, which consists of several frogs of a much smaller size than this, and having the webs of the toes less developed. During my stay in Borneo I had no hunter to shoot for
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FLYING FKOG. me regularly, and, being myself fully occupied with insects,! did not succeed in obtaining a very good collection of the birds or Mammalia^ many of which, however, are well known, being identical with species found in Malacca. Among the Mammalia were five squirrels, two tiger-cats, the Gymnurus rafflesii, which looks like a cross between a pig and a polecat^

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  • bookdecade:1860
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  • bookauthor:Wallace_Alfred_Russel_1823_1913
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • booksubject:Ethnology
  • bookpublisher:New_York_Harper
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