Also Elpaputi makele ‘marsupial sp.’. Nothofer (1992) compares this set with Manggaraimandar ‘egret’, Malay (Jakarta)buruŋ mandar ‘bird sp., unident.’, connecting marsupial mammals and birds through their common presence in trees. Although the cuscus is arboreal the bandicoot is not, and the association of these faunal taxa remains highly speculative. Schapper (2011) has argued that *mansər/mansar meant ‘cuscus’, but this semantic attribution is based largely on non-specific glosses in languages of eastern Indonesia, and conflicts with the evidence of Oceanic reflexes which clearly reflect this term in the meaning ‘bandicoot’.