covered with hairs, likę those of the back. Tail thickish at the root, 

 TOOuse-coloured, not diminishing to a point ; apex light brown or 

 grey ; cailosities tan-coloured, ^vith the liair for about an inch sur- 

 rounding them fuliginous ; penis trilobed. The female has the legs 

 and arms of a redder tint, the iuside of the u]iper arms and broad 

 patches of the chest and belly indigo-blue, and the band across the 

 forehead not usually dark, but of an orange-yellow. In the imma- 

 ture the hair of the crovvn is not much liattened do\vn or so diver- 

 ging, the face more old-fashioned and exquisitely comical, the tail 

 nearly naked, and the cheeks, paims, soles and cailosities, pale pink- 

 ish. I have nothing to add to the admirable desciiption of the habits 

 of the genus given in ' Menageries.' This and the Toque should 

 unquestionably be separated from all other ' Macaąues.' 



" The Loris gracilis is very common in the lower country of the 

 south and east of Ceylon. Mr. Baird's account leaves little to be 

 said about it, as its timorousness and nocturnal habits alFord little 

 opportunity for \vatching it. I have had them several times, but 

 have never been able to keep them for more than a few months ; they 

 soon begin to pine away and die. Their food consisted of very 

 ripe plantains, rice, and such insects as abounded in the apartment. 

 The lašt I had slėpt nearly all day Avith the nose resting against the 

 lower part of the belly, as represented in the sketeh ; about dusk, if 

 the room was perfectly quiet, it ventured about, cra\vling along the 

 rails of the chairs \vith a very gentie movement, occupying nearly 

 one-third of a minute in closing its hands on the parts of the furni- 

 ture it grasped in succession, and moving its head from side to side 

 ■with much grave deliberation ; but w'hen a spider or other insect 

 came within its reach, its clutch at it was quick as lightning, and 

 •with equal rapidity it was conveyed to the mouth, so that I could 

 only guess at \vhat it had seized from know'ing that insects abounded 

 in the room. It was perfectly conscious of being \vatched, as I have 

 occasionally detected it moving with considerable rapidity, but in- 

 stantly assuming its ordinary slow movement when my eyes were 

 directed towards it. It would not tolerate the familiarities vvhich 

 are mentioned by Mr. Baird ; and Capt. Geale, 90tb Light Infantry, 

 remarked to me that it seemed particularly anxious to avoid having 

 its hinder extremities touched, \vhich is certainly the case. I never 

 sa\v it search for ' Pediculi' among its hair, nor could ever detect any 

 on its body after death. When approached it retired along the stiek 

 placed slantingly in the corner for its use, or along the back of the 

 chairs \vith the usual deliberate movement, its great goggle eyes 

 fixed immoveably on your face, or hands if held to\vards it, and with 

 every expression of extreme fear. Its mouth appears so small and 

 so little distensible, at least \vhen alive, that I cannot imagine it ca- 

 pable of biting anything except it be of very small size ; yet the na- 

 tives universally assert that it destroys peacocks in the jungle, seizing 

 them by the neck, which it clutches with such tenacity that the bird 

 soon falls exhausted to the ground off its perch, or in its sudden 

 flight attempting to escape its persecutor ; and further, that having 

 devoured the brains it leaves the ręst of the bodv untonched. The 



