444 nnt.UA, rrs people a.xd piiodvctioxs. 



"Tlic stuffed specimen is nearly the same, except tliat the tail is rather longer. 

 The dimensions given by Horsfield "and Vigors for an adult are rather more; — head 

 and body 14-25 inches, tail 105, whilst the tarsus is stated to be only 2 inches long, 

 but the difference is trifling. 



"ilr. Davison informs me that Gtjmnura is purely nocturnal in its habits, and 

 lives under the roots of trees. It has a peculiar and most offensive smell, not musky, 

 but rather alliaceous, resembling decomposed cooked vegetables." 



Famihj Galeopithecidse. 



Galeoi'ituecus, Shaw. 

 Dentition, I. * ; C. f ; P.M. | ; M. i ; total 34. 



G. VOLAJfS, L. 



The flying lemur. ' Myouk-bloung-pyau.' 



Colour of fur olive-brown, with whitish patches, which render its body difficult 

 to distinguish from the bark of the tree it frequents. A membranous fold, covered 

 with fine hair, extends on either side from the fore to the hind limbs, and which is 

 expanded as a parachute, when leaping from one tree to another. Mr. Wallace 

 remarks that " it is sluggish in its motions at least by day, going up a tree by short 

 runs, as if the action was diflicult," and adds, " In a bright twilight, I saw one of 

 these animals run up a trunk in a rather open space, and then glide obliquely through 

 the air to another tree, on which it alighted near its base, and immediately began to 

 ascend. I paced the distance from one tree to the other, and found it to bo seventy 

 yards ; and the amount of descent at not more than thirty-five or forty feet, or less 

 than one in five. This I think proves that the animal must have some power of 

 guiding itself through the air ; otherwise in so long a distance it would have little 

 chance of aligViting exactly upon the trunk. The Giihopithecus feeds chiefly on 

 leaves, and possesses a very voluminous stomach and long convoluted intestines. The 

 brain is very small, and the animal possesses such remarkable tenacity of life, that it 

 is exceedingly difficult to kill it by any ordinary means. The tail is prehensile, and 

 is probably niade use of as an additional support when feeding. It is said to have 

 only a single young one at a time, and my own observation confirms this statement, 

 for I once shot a female, with a very small blind and naked little creature clinging 

 closely to its breast, which was quite bare and much wrinkled, reminding me of the 

 young of marsupials, to which it seemed to form a transition. On the back, and 

 extending over the limbs and membrane, the fur of these animals is short, but 

 exquisitely soft, resembling in its texture that of the Chinchilla." Eaffles, however, 

 states that it produces two young at a time, and Mr. A. Adams, who accompanied 

 Sir E. Belcher in the exploring voyage of H.M.S. " Bamarang," found two young in 

 one which he dissected. 



The range of the flying lemur is a wide one. It inhabits the ^Malayan countries and 

 Tenasserim, and, according to Mr. Dunn, the Valley of the Koladyne River in Arakau, 

 but has not been obtained in Pegu, although Major Spearman remarks that he saw 

 one near the town of Bheoleng. 



B.— GTRENOCEPHALA. 



Hemispheres of brain more or less convoluted, and extending more or less over 

 the cerebellum and olfactory lobes. 



Order CETACEA. 



Nostril usually forms a blow-hole on the top of the head. 



Anterior feet changed into fins. No posterior extremities. No external ears. 

 Tail horizontal, a distinctive character of aquatic mammalia. 



Family Balaenopteridse. 

 Head enormous. Teeth none, being replaced by transverse horny laminic 

 (whalebone or ' baken') adhering to the upper jaw. Bony teeth exist, however, in 



