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Falkner¹ Patagonia no description of wild animals, nor in Dobritzhoffer² Abipones.—

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Voyage de l'Astrolabe Zoologie³ p. 60 Vol. I Cynocephalus niger comes from the Moluccas Matchian & Celebes. # Amboina, Viverra Zibetha.⁴ # — All the Moluccas, Waggiou, New Guinea, New Ireland, have phalangista⁵ which differ in form & head & colour from those of New Holland.— The New Holland species are not found in the Archipelago..— Former statements to such effects false. In New Guinea a Kangaroo D'Aroe (Didelphus Brunii)⁶ which as yet had only been found in isle of Aroe & Solor.

¹ Thomas Falkner. A Description of Patagonia and the adjoining parts of South America, Hereford, 1774.
² Martinus Dobritzhofer, Account of the Abipones, London, 1822.
³ Jean René Quoy et Joseph Paul Gaimard, Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe, Zoologie, Paris, 1830, tome 1, p. 60.
⁴ ibid., p. 61
⁵ ibid., p. 62
⁶ ibid., P. 62

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Vol. I
likewise new species of Parameles,¹ which joined to Casoars, perroquets, establishes its Zoolog alliance with New Holland. The Barbaroussas² (when young very like the Siam race with Long nozzle & few hairs) inhabits Celebes & few of the larger islands..— Antelope in Celebes. Bourou³ new species of Axis Cervus moluccensis different from that of the Mariana islands & at Amboina.— I fancy there is marked wild breed of oxen at Java. p. 140 calls it Bos leucoprymnus.⁴ does not say whether wild or not.

p. 156 — Parroket with stiff tail like woodpecker.⁵.—

¹ ibid., P. 61 : "petit kanguroo à queue courte".
² ibid., P. 63 : "on les confond avec les petits cochons … de Siam".
³ ibid., P. 64 : "à Java un boeuf remarquable par sa grande taille".
⁴ ibid., P. 140.
⁵ ibid., P. 156 :" queue à plumes fortes et usée comme celles des Pics".

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The changes in species must be very slow owing to physical changes. slow & offspring not picked..— as man do. when making varieties..—
Voyage of Coquille.¹ Zoolog. p. 19 Tapir de Courrucous et rupicole vert instances of American forms in East. Ind. Archipelago.# Raffles,² Horsfield,³ Diard,⁴ Duvaucel,⁵ Leschenault,⁶ Kuhl,⁷ Van-Hasselt,⁸ Reinwardt,⁹ , Forrest¹⁰ authors on E. Indian Arch.#
Borneo & Sumatra both seem to have elephant & has orangs.¹¹ Tapir common to Sumatra & Molucca. # Borneo & Molucca & Cochin China are said to have orang-otang & Pongo in common.¹² # Galiopithecus common to Moluccas & Pelew Is^ds. p. 22 New Caledonia New Ireland p. 123 & Britain same kind of dog with those of New S. Wales.

¹ René Primevère Lesson et Prosper Garnot,Voyage autour du Monde … sur … La Coquille.… Zoologie, Paris, 1826, p. 19.
² Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, History of Java, London, 1817.
³ Thomas Horsfield,Zoological Researches in Java and the neighbouring islands, London, 1824.
⁴ Diard is mentioned in the Dictionnaire Larousse, under "Duvaucel" as a French naturalist whom the latter met on his expedition, in 1818.
⁵ Alfred Duvaucel (1792-1824).
⁶ Jean Leschenault de la Tour (1773-1826).
⁷ Heinrich Kuhl, in K. H. Blume, Enumeratio plantarum Javae et insularum adjacentium, Lugd. Batav. 1827-8.
⁸ van Hasselt, collaborator with Heinrich Kuhl.
⁹ Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt.
¹⁰ Thomas Forrest, A Voyage to New Guinea and the Mollucas …, London, 1779.
¹¹ Lesson et Garnot, op. cit., p. 20 : "Sumatra et Bornéo paraissent renfermer quelques espèces de quadrupèdes identiques, tels que l'èlèphant des Indes, Elephas indicus Cuv. et les orangs".
¹² ibid., "Bornéo récèle sans doute beaucoup d'animaux inconnus ; mais ceux qu'on y indique plus particulièrement, tels que l'orang-outan et le pongo, existent aussi, à ce qu'on assure, et dans la cochin-chine et sur la presqu'île de malacca". Pongo is the name of the orang-utan, but it is found only in Borneo and Sumatra.

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Crocodile at New Guinea. All the isles of Oceania have the Scincus with golden streaks.— the lacerta vitteli extends to from Amboina to New Ireland, p. 23
— Voyage of Coquille Lesson
no (p. 24) batrachian in isles of great Ocean says in conformity with Bory's¹ Views. 19

says D'Orbigny² is said to have brought a tortoise & toad from S. America & identical with those from S. Africa. M. Brisson³ doubts fact.— My toad is same species.

¹ Jean-Baptiste Bory de St Vincent, Voyage dans les quatre principales îles des Mers d'Afrique, Paris, 1804.
² Alcide Dessalines D'Orbigny.
³ Mathurin Jacques Brisson, author of Regnum animale, Parisiis, 1756.

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p. 158 Cuscus albus.¹ New Ireland,
— [Cuscus] maculatus — Waigiou.

Speaking of Lepus Magellanicus says, after "après un examen attentif, et forts surtout de l'opinion du baron Cuvier, nous ne balançons pas à le regarder comme une espèce distincte".²

p. 171 Sus papuensis partly domesticated like in general appearance the Siamese kind.— but considered good species from dental characters, wild pig said by Forrest to swim from one isl^d to another.³ — It is a good species, with different numbers of teats.¹
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¹ Lesson et Garnot, op. cit.
² ibid., p. 169.
³ Thomas Forrest, op. cit., p. 97.
⁴ Lesson et Garnot, op. cit., p. 175.

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Durville¹ has written Flora of Falkland Isl^ds. where is it?
All the Society isles have the same productions² p. 293. is very strong about this Lesson insists much.—
The (p. 296) Columba Kurukuru found in all Malaisia & Oceania, offers many varieties in each place to puzzle naturalists.—
p. 372 Bourous the Babyroussa ; a Cervus near Marianus new ; & some rats & mice. In Amboina only Cuscus & Babiroussa

¹ Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville, "Flore des îles Malouines ", Mémoires de la Société Lin-néenne de Paris, tome 4, 1825.
² Lesson et Garnot, op. cit.