COLUGO.—Galeopithécus volans. 
inexperienced eye. The membrane is not used in the manner of wings, but is merely 
employed as a sustaining power in the progress through the air. It is evident, therefore, 
that at every leap, the spot at which it aims must be lower than that from which it 
starts, so that it is forced, after some few aerial voyages, to run up the trees and attain 
a higher station. It is said that the Colugo will thus pass over nearly a hundred 
yards. 
Among other bat-like habits, the Colugo is accustomed to suspend itself by its hinder 
paws from the branch of a tree, and in this pendant attitude it sleeps. Its slumbers are 
mostly diurnal, for the Colugo is a night-loving animal, and is seldom seen in motion 
until the shades of evening draw on. But on the approach of night, the Colngo awakes 
from its drowsiness, and unhooking its claws from the branch on which it has hung 
suspended during the hours of daylight, sets off on its travels in search of food. 
The diet of this animal is said to consist of mixed animal and vegetable substances, 
the former being eggs, insects, and small birds, while the latter is composed of various 
soft fruits. Its paws are equally adapted for grasping the boughs of the trees among 
which it passes its existence, and for seizing the prey on which it lives. The thumbs are 
not capable of opposition to the fingers, and therefore cannot be used as are the thumbs 
of the human hand. 
It will be remembered that, in the Aye-aye, the structure of the mamme is very 
different from that of the true monkeys ; and in the Colugo, the same organs are marked 
by a singular peculiarity of form and number. Instead of the usual supply of two 
mamme on the breast, the Colugo is furnished with four of those organs. 
The female Colugo is motherly in her habits, and carries her young family with her 
until they have attained a moderate size. 
