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GEOGRAPHY OF BORNEO 7
species of birds, many of them being of gorgeous
colouring or strange and beautiful forms ; especiallynoteworthy
are many hawks, owls, and eagles, fly-
catchers, spider-hunters, sun-birds, broad-bills, night-
jars, orioles, miners, pigeons, kingfishers, hornbills,
trojans, magpies, jays, crows, partridges, pheasants,
herons, bitterns, snipes, plovers, curlews, and sandpipers.
Amongst these are many species peculiar
while on the mountains above the
to Borneo ;
4000- feet level are found several species which
outside Borneo are known only in the Himalayas.
Besides the mammals mentioned above, Borneo
claims several species of mammal peculiar to itself,
notably the long-nosed monkey [Nasa/is larvatus) ;
two species of ape [Semnopitkecus Hosei and S.
cruciger) ; many shrews and squirrels, including
several flying species ; a civet-cat i^Hemigale Hosei) ;
a deer (Cervus Brookii)) the bearded pig {Sus
barbatus) ; the curious feather-tailed shrew [Ptylocercus
Lowii).
Reptiles are well represented by the crocodile,
which abounds in all the rivers, a long-snouted
gavial, numerous tortoises and lizards with several
flying species, and more than seventy species of
snakes, of which some are poisonous, while the
biggest, the python, attains a length of thirty feet.
The rivers abound in edible fish of many species
insects are of course numerous and varied, and, aided
by the multitude of frogs, they fill the island each
evening at sunset with one vast chorus of sound.
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