76 GAL AGO 



Measurements. Total length, 365 ; tail, 195 ; foot, 65. 



In the British Museum are two specimens of this species each 

 marked co-type and which were the originals of Gray's description. 

 He did not select any particular specimen as The type. 



Galago mossambicus Peters. 



Galago senegalensis Peters, Reis. Mossamb. Saugeth., 1852, p. 11. 



(nee Geoff.). 

 Galago mossambicus Peters, Sitzungsb. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, 



Berlin, 1876, p. 143 ; Thos. and Wrought., Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1908, p. 537. 



MOZAMBIQUE GALAGO. 



Type locality. North of Tete, Mozambique. Type in Berlin 

 Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Type locality only. 



Genl. Char. Size small ; tail very long ; ears large ; rostrum very 

 short. 



Color. General color of head, upper parts of body and outer side 

 of limbs sooty gray, tinged with buff on hinder part of thighs and legs 

 below the knee ; under parts and inner side of limbs sooty buflf ; hands 

 and feet sooty; tail sooty brown tinged with reddish. Ex type Berlin 

 Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 400 ; tail, 210. Skull, much broken : 

 zygomatic width, 26; median length of nasals, 10; length of upper 

 molar series, 9. Ex type Berlin Museum. 



This is a small animal distinguished by its sooty head. That is, 

 as the type is today, as shown to me in the Berlin Museum ; but Peters 

 in his Reise states, that the under parts are grayish white, {grau 

 weiss), or yellowish white, {gelblich weiss). Four specimens in the 

 British Museum from a few miles south of Tete have the under side 

 so colored. It is probable therefore that the type has become discolored 

 by dust, and does not correctly represent the species. 



Galago pupulus Elliot. 



Galago pupulus Elliot, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., IV, 8th Ser., 1909, 



p. 77. 

 Type locality. Yola, Nigeria. Type in British Museum. 

 Genl. Char. Size small, color pale; ears very large; tail very long. 

 Color. Top of head, neck, and back to root of tail brownish gray, 

 the brown tinge less noticeable between the shoulders which part is a 



