34 MAMMALIA OF INDIA. 
ing on fruits and leaves. Cuvier places them after the Bats, but they 
seem properly to link the Lemurs and the frugivorous Bats. As yet 
they have not been found in India proper, but are common in the 
Malayan Peninsula, and have been found in Burmah. 
No. 30. GALHZOPITHECUS VOLANS 
The Flying Lemur. 
Native NaMe.—JZj00k-hloung-pyan, Burmese. 
Haspitat.—Mergui; the Malayan Peninsula. 
DEsSCRIPTION.—Fur olive brown, mottled with irregular whitish spots 
Galaopithecus volans. 
and blotches ; the pile is short, but exquisitely soft ; head and brain 
very small ; tail long and prehensile. The membrane 1s continued from 
each side of the neck to the fore feet ; thence to the hind feet, again to 
