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Coup d' Oeil sur la Faune des iles de la Sonde et de'empire du Japon.

Discours Preliminaire - Temminck.

p 7 Sumatra has very peculiar Fauna, more like that of Borneo than Java or Malacca - (sentence not very clear)

p 8  I imagine the Sumatra Rhinoceros differs more from the Java one, than from the Indian one

p 8 Horsfield has made mistake in separating Ursus Melaneus of Borneo from that of Java

p 9 Semnopithecus of ancient world represents the Ateles & Alonates of the New World.

p 10  The birds, especially the Gallinaceous order & pidgeons pigeons & Celeos. Breves. Eurylaimes Couroneous & all little birds living in the thick forests of Sumatra are either specifically distinct, or when the same, their plumage is more brilliant & size larger, than those of Java - some are absolutely same in two islands - some more or less erratic or true cosmopolites are same in all islands of of the Archipelago & only offer "la plus legere disparite" with the like species from the coast of Africa. - - Some others are true cosmopolites Java. Japan New Guinea & Europe. M. Temminck says how wonderful the difference between the Fauna of these two isld & on other hand the identity of some species under such different climates & distances!!! {We know in domestication some animals vary more than others so we might expect they  would in wild state independent of intermarriage.

p 10 - M. T says he has observed in his "Monograph de Mammalogia" that the colour of skin & size varies in those species which are found in the different islands - & likewise especially in the Cheroptera in the pointedness of the nose

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yet surely countries so near as the adjoining parts of Java & Sumatra cannot differ much - it is the aggregate of difference produced by intermarriage

p 12 [illeg] , a Madrepore Isd East end of Java has no quadrupeds, it is however arid

p 13 Pavo spirifer inhabits Java Argus giganteus in Sumatra & Malacca - Perdrix Javanica found no where else - Calao lunatus, plicatus & malabaricus found in Java, representing the species of the genus which are found in Sumatra & Borneo.

p 13 Turdus varius found on mountains of Java X & on lesser heights in Japan ­-analogous to facts mentioned by Dr. Bachman in United States

p. 14 Thinks the quantity of species of mamifers birds, reptiles fishes insects mollucs equals or even surpasses in some classes those of the great Africa. - antelopes alone excepted - thinks that if calculated the number of bird even surpasses that of S America - there being in each case large unexplored tracts. -  See the effects of the land being thus broken.

p 16 The Megapodium in Celebes do not hatch their eggs. - seem representative of Tinamus & Eudromia in New World.

p 21 Felis tigris & Felis irbis has long woolly hair in Corea - ranges from isle de Sonde to the Altai it is found in Java, with very fine coat - not found in Japan-

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Relation of character of quadrupeds to surroundings, is explicable when same species occur on the opposite sides, as Brisbane & Sicily &c. - but what [illeg] relation on creationist - but there [rounding] obviously in this troubled region of the world studded with orders, is connection on my theory, for they might formerly have been connected & the same parent species extended. Ask why Gilolo, Ternate &c shd have Aus ones, & Celebes, Borneo &c have Asiatic genera.

In E. Ind - Arch. depths & distances greater than Britain & Europe &c &c. - Fernando Po, get Waterhouse work out & Philippines.

[in margin:] Surely not conditions in these cases

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Voyage a la Recherche. Labillardière Vol II. p. 301.

Pangisani island near Celebes has simia sylvanus deer, boars, & buffaloes.

Bourou has deer & Sus. Barbyrousa

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Cuming has sent [plenty]

Collect to Soc, Zoology from Phillippine

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