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THE SLENDER LORIS. GENUS LORES. 

 Loris^ Geoffr., Mag. Encycl, Ann. 2, i., p. 48 (1796). 

 Stenops^ Illiger, Prodr., p. 73 (181 1). 



As this genus contains only a solitary species, its characters 

 are necessarily those of the species. 



I. THE SLENDER LORIS. LORIS GRACILIS. 



Loris gracilis^ Geoffr., Magas. Encycl. Ann. 4, i., p. 48 (1796); 



id. Catal, p. 37, no. i (1803); id. Ann. Mus., xix., p. 163 



(1812); Is. Geoffr., Cat. Meth. Primates, p. 79 (1851); 



Blyth, Cat. Mamm. As. Soc, p. 19 (1863); Anderson, 



Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus., p. 97 (1881); Blanf., Faun. Biit. 



Ind. Mamm., p. 47 (1888). 

 Nycticebus gracilis, Fischer, Syn. Mamm, p. 70 (1829); Schl., 



Mus. Pays Bas, vii., p. 284 (1876). 

 Stenops tardigradiis, Illiger, Prodr, Syst. Mamm., p. 73 



(1811, pt.). 

 Stenops gracilis, Van der Hoeven, Tijdschr., Nat. Ges., xi., p. 



39 (1844) ; Kelaart, Prod. Fauna ZeyL, p. 9 (1852). 



Characters. — A slender-bodied animal covered with close, soft, 

 and woolly fur. Head short and round ; eyes very large ; nose 

 narrow and much pointed ; ears small and haired externally ; 

 tips nude. Limbs long, remarkably slender and angularly 

 bent; hands and feet covered with short hair; index-finger 

 with three phalanges and finger-bones. 



Skull with eye-sockets closely approximating, in the centre 

 separated only by a thin plate of bone ; nasal and premaxillary 

 bones prolonged forward to support the narrow pointed nose ; 

 cranium, along its base to end of nasal bones, two inches lono- 

 broader across the orbits than behind in front of the articula- 

 tion of lower jaw; bony palate extending back beyond the 



