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Zoologisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra 

 Amsterdam " has published an excellent woodcut 

 of the "vliegende maki." The animal in its 

 mottled cloak seems to be just rousing from slumber 

 and is slowly climbing, still upside down, along 

 a slender branch. The artist having made the 

 most of the scanty vibrissae has given rather a rat- 

 like appearance to the head ; the webbed membranous 

 feet are excellently rendered. Dr. Horsfield's 

 specimens, at first located in the East India Com- 

 pany's Museum in Leadenhall Street, were afterwards 

 transferred to the National Collection; other examples 

 are now in the Derby Museum at Liverpool and in 

 the Manchester Museum, Owens College. An 

 interesting specimen — a young cobego preserved in 

 spirit — was presented many years ago to the Zoo- 

 logical Society by Mr. J. C. Hoffman, and is perhaps 

 identical with that now in the Royal College of 

 Surgeons' Museum. This last-named example 

 (recently examined by the writer) is now of a grey 

 colour all over, naked, and with the parachute very 

 wrinkled, while the head is much elongated, narrow- 

 ing down to a blunt muzzle. This ugly duckling 

 may be compared with the handsome adult specimen, 

 brilliantly tinged with orange like a flying squirrel, 

 which is preserved in spirit close by; the great 

 contrast between them reminds one of the fish-like 

 tadpole and the air-breathing frog, of the fat green 

 caterpillar and the soaring emperor butterfly. One 



