THE TARSIERS. 21 



Distribution. — Found only in the jungles of the Malayan 

 islands of Sumatra, Java, Banka, Billiton, and Borneo. 



II. THE DUSKY-HANDED TARSIER. TARSIUS FUSCUS. 



? Lemur podje, Kerr, Linn. Anim. Kingdom, p. 86 (1792). 

 Tarsius fuscus, s. fuscomanus^ Fischer, Anat. der Maki, pp. 3, 



7 (1784). 

 Tarsius fuscomamis, Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 168 (181 2); 



Max Weber, Zool. Ergebn. Reis. Nederl. Ost-Indien, iii., 



p. 264 (1893). 

 Tarsius fischeri^ Burm. Tarsius, pp. 29, 129 (1846). 



Characters. — Closely related to the preceding species in size 

 and other characters, but distinguished by the colour of the 

 hands, which are dark brown. 



Distribution. — Inhabits the islands of the Indian Archipelago, 

 farther to the eastward than those in which Tarsius Tarsius 

 is found. It has been recorded from Celebes, and the neigh- 

 bouring groups of Salayer and Sanghir, and from some of the 

 Philippine Islands, such as Bohol and Mindanao. 



Habits. — The habits of both species of Tarsier are identical, 

 and may be described together. They are almost entirely noc- 

 turnal and arboreal animals, rarely, of their own accord, coming 

 to the ground. They move from place to place by leaping 

 along the larger branches, or from tree to tree, even when these 

 stand several feet distant. When they do descend, however, 

 they advance on the ground by the same curious Frog-like 

 leaps, without bringing their fore-limbs down to the ground. 

 The Tarsier is said to climb easily, even without grasping, by 

 means of the round discs on its slender finger-tips, which, like 

 suckers, enable it to hold on by the side pressure of its limbs 

 to any smooth surface, such as the stems of the bamboo- 



