LONNBKKC. -M. \.MMALS. 5 



The measurements of the adult skull agrees very well with THOMAS' original de- 

 scription. The colour of the skin of the second specimen is perhaps more uniformly 

 fawny brownish than the description indicates but this may be a feature characteristic 

 for the youth. More material is, however, needed before it can be definitely decided 

 which name ought to be applied to this baboon, and whether it is the same race which 

 lives in Usambara and at Kibonoto. 



0n Kilimandjaro the Baboons were very obnoxious. The natives must conti- 

 nually keep watches in huts built in trees at the farms and plantations to protect the 

 crop against the daring robberies of the Baboons which took place even in the upper 

 parts of the cultivated zone. The mays fields were especially exposed to their predations. 

 In greater or smaller flocks they wandered about in the woods and bushes especially 

 where a rich undergrowth of bushes offered them protection against sudden dangers. Since 

 they once had observed that some danger threatened, it was no use to pursue them. They 

 were always far ahead, and it could only from the barking of the old ones be understood 

 in which direction they fled. Only if they were surprised on more open ground could they 

 be killed in any number (SJOSTEDT). 



]aiigaiiiensis (MAT.SCHIE.) 



Otolcimir pauyaniensi.y MATSCHIE, Sitzber. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 1905 p. 278. 



Usambara: 1 J 1 from Same, 23 /c 190") -- Kiliitmndjaro: Kibonoto, from the culti- 

 vated zone, 2 specimens 15 A, 1 specimen V, 2 specimens '" * 1 specimen 3 '/s (kept in 

 confinement for some time), 2 specimens October 1905. 



All these specimens are very much alike with regard to the colour of the fur and 

 all have the tail dark at the tip, but the specimen numbered 281 in the collection is a 

 little larger than the others having a basicranial length (from foramen magnum to inner 

 base of incisors) 1 measuring 60 mm. The same measurement of the one next in size is 

 59 mm. but then none of the others measures more than 56. 



The C4alago was very common on Kilimandjaro at Kibonoto in the cultivated 

 zone and lower parts of the rain forest. It was also found to be very common in the 

 rain forest on Meru at least up to an altitude of 3.500 m. When the sun had disappeared 

 they were soon heard, especially at some times of the year, uttering their sharp chattering 

 screams, at other times, however, they kept more silent. A Galago kept in confinement 

 slept the whole day in the darkest corner of the cage and with the head between the 

 forelegs, it was usually good-tempered, but when irritated it tried to bite. If somebody 

 when it was aw r ake, approached suddenly with the hand it jumped back with the round 

 brown-yellow eyes staring at the intruder, the mouth half opened, and the arms 

 stretched out and making defending movements, somtimes as if it would strike. It 

 liked to eat ripe bananas and greedily cut out large pieces of the same, stretching out 

 the long tongue it licked the soft and sweet fruit pulp, evidently enjoying itself, and 

 growled if disturbed (SJOSTEDT). 



The Galagos are very stationary. Night after night they were heard from the 

 same groups of trees. 



1 Otherwise in this paper the liasicranial length is eomiteil in the lip of the premaxillaries. 



