MICROCEBUS ' 109 



FORK-MARKED DWARF LEMUR. Native name Walouvy. (Schleg. and 

 Pollen). 



Type locality. Madagascar. 



Geogr. Distr. Eastern coast of Madagascar from Fort Dauphin 

 on the south to Mt. Ambre on the north, and down west coast to Cape 

 St. Vincent, inhabiting all the northern section across the island. 



Genl. Char. Black dorsal streak continues to forehead, and there 

 divides into two branches terminating over each eye. Size large for 

 this genus. Inner upper incisors larger than outer. Skull : facial 

 region long; palate extending beyond last molar; inferior margin of 

 mandible concave, the angle produced backward not downward ; upper 

 incisors in advance of canines, posterior pair the larger ; first upper pre- 

 molar canine-like; second and third upper premolar with one cusp; 

 lower incisors long ; lower molars subequal. 



Color. Upper parts reddish gray, brighter and more reddish on 

 head and neck ; outer side of limbs dark rufous, almost chestnut on the 

 arms ; throat pale rufous ; chin and rest of under parts yellowish ; a 

 black stripe from lower part of back to crown of head where it 

 bifurcates, each branch leaning towards inner side of ear and ending 

 over the eye ; hands and feet dark brown ; tail bushy, dark reddish 

 brown with black tip. 



Measurements. Total length about 600 ; tail, 350. Skull : occipito- 

 nasal length, 53 ; Hensel, 42 ; zygomatic width, 33 ; intertemporal width, 

 20; median length of nasals, 11; length of upper molar series, 14; 

 length of mandible, 31 ; length of lower molar series, 12. 



This pretty little species, according to Schlegel and Pollen, (1. c.) 

 is found in numbers in the forests in the western part of Madagascar. 

 It also dwells in the eastern part whence M. Goudot sent an example 

 to the Paris Museum. Towards evening it leaves its lodging where it 

 had slept during the entire day. In choosing this it prefers a hole in a 

 tree which has two openings. Often such places are the dwellings of 

 bees, and in that case, the Walouvy, the name the animal bears in the 

 country, separates the hive of the insects from his own nest by a small 

 bunch of straw or dried leaves. The natives pretend that it prefers the 

 society of the bees to rob the honey of which it is very fond. It is 

 much more nimble and agile than the ordinary Lemur, and its leaps are 

 wonderful. Its cry, continually uttered during the night, is very 

 piercing and resembles the syllables ka-ka-ka-ka, similar to the cry of 

 the guinea fowl. 



