MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: New information on mystery animals in Hong Kong part 3

Here is the third and final part of my blog on unusual and overlooked animals in Hong Kong,taken from postings in the Facebook group `Hong Kong Was,Is and Forever Will Be my Home!`during February 2017.

James Campbell Clements reported a big bat over Cheung Chau in 1991 as a typhoon approached.A couple of typhoons passed over or near Hong Kong that year.Some people identified it as a frigate bird. A similar large "bat" or large eagle was seen at Tai Au Chau, part of the Soko Islands, a few months later also prior to
a typhoon.

Joan Summers saw a massive porcupine near Stanley Terrace sometime in the 1960s. Now interestingly I have come across other reports of very large porcupines
on Hong Kong Island.By "massive" Joan meant half the size of her chow-alsation cross.Vicky Henderson saw a huge porcupine on Mt Nicholson Rd.

Eric Walters saw an axis deer (which are not officially part of Hong Kong`s fauna) on Middle Gap Rd.

Another puzzle are the tiny black or dark brown squirrels seen by Carol Blandford at Hebe Haven on the southern shore of the Sai Kung Peninsula in the early
`80s.which were darker than the dark brown Pallas squirrel which is native to Hong Kong and smaller than the red squirrel of Britain.