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The Malay Archipelago
Volume I. (of II.)

CHAPTER IV
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6 in.

I preserved the skin of this specimen in a cask of arrack, and prepared a perfect skeleton, which was afterwards purchased for the Derby Museum.
Only four days afterwards some Dyaks saw another Mias near the same place, and came to tell me.

We found it to be a rather large one, very high up on a tall tree.

At the second shot it fell rolling over, but almost immediately got up again and began to climb.

At a third shot it fell dead.


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