32 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
sunset rolled up like a hedgehog. Its food was chiefly plantains, and 
mangoes when in season. Peaches, mulberries, and guavas, it did not 
so much care for, but it was most eager after grasshoppers, which it 
devoured voraciously. It was very particular in the performance of its 
Loris gracilis and Nycticebus tardigradus. 
toilet, cleaning and licking its fur. Cuvier also notices this last 
peculiarity, and with regard to its diet says it eats small birds as well as 
insects. These animals are occasionally to be bought in the Calcutta 
market. A friend of mine had a pair which were a source of great 
amusement to his guests after dinner. (See Appendix C, p. 526.) 
