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more active animal, of a grey colour, with a black stripe along 

 the back. The Malays have a superstitious aversion to these 

 animals, and never keep them in their houses, from an idea that 

 they bring misfortunes and ill luck. 



GALEOPITHECUS rufus Pallas. 

 Lemur volans Linn. 

 K u b u n g of the Malays . £j>j£a 

 Frequent in the Malay peninsula and islands. 

 This animal is too well known to require description : it usually 

 hangs from the branch of a tree suspended by its four hands. 

 The wing-like membrane cannot serve the animal to fly, but 

 when extended acts as a kind of parachute, by which it is 

 enabled to make long leaps from tree to tree. There are six 

 pectinate incisors in the lower jaw, and four in the upper, of 

 which the middle ones are remote ; two canines in each jaw, 

 and five molars on each side. The canines are peculiar in 

 having two fangs, and the molars have the same number. The 

 larynx is osseous. The animal produces two young at a time, 

 and the number of mammae correspond. The two pair are 

 situated near to each other on the breast a little below the 

 axillae. The colours on the back of the young are more di- 

 stinct and variegated than in the adult. Mr. Marsden's figure 

 gives a very good idea of this animal. 



VESPERTILIO Vampyrus. Var. 0. rubricollis Geoff. 



Vespertilio Ferrum equinum Linn. 



Kaluang of the Malays. ^Ss 



Of this there are two distinct varieties : one large, and having 

 a complicated nasal membrane ; the other smaller, and having a 

 simple semilunar membrane over the nose. In one of these, 



besides 



