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conical, I he tJiird with two acute tubercles on the outer side and 

 one on the inner, the others not ascertained* Face shortish ; 

 muzzle ■projecting ; nostrils lateral, small, and sinuous ; head 

 rounded; limbs nearly equal, long, and sleyider ; index finger of 

 hinder hand very short ; tail of moderate length, and covered 

 with hair like that of the body. 



Ferodicticus Geoffroyii. (The Potto.) Hairs long, soft, and 

 woolly, moHse-colourcd at their bases, rufous in their middle, 

 and paler at their tips, where some of them arc white : — thence 

 results on the upper surface and on the outsidcs of the limhs a 

 chesnut colour with a slight mixture of grey ; the under surface 

 is much paler. The, muzzle and chin are almost naked, haviug 

 only a few scattered whitish hairs. Length of the head and 

 body ahout eight inches, of the tail one inch and six tenths. 

 • Inhabits Sierra Leone. /. Boyle, Esq. 



Potto Prosrann, Guin. ii. 35. No. 4. ? Lemur Potto, Gm. 

 Liii. Syst. Nat. 42. ? Nycticebus Potto, Ann. Mus. xix. 165. ? 

 Galago Guincensis, Desm. Mam. 104. No. 127- 



,Genus Galago. Geoffroy. 



Incisors *, canines \ \, molars 3 § — 36. Superior incisors se-' 

 •parated in the middle ; inferior ones inclined, the outermost of 

 each side largest ; molars with sharp points, the first on each 

 side, above and below, having but one; two pectoral mammm ; 

 head rounded; muzzle short; ears Urge, membranous, and 

 naked; eyes very large, approaching ; posterior members very 

 long ; tail long. 



Galago Madagascariensis, Geoff. (Little Galago.) Fur 

 reddish ; ears half the length of the head ; tail longer than the 

 body, and covered with short hair. Size of a rat. 



Inhabits JMadagascar. 



Schreb. xxxviii. And. Gal. pi. \. Rat de Madagascar, 

 Buff. Supp.'w. pi. 19. ? Lemur Murinus, Pen. Quad. vol. 1. 

 p. 232. Le Moyen Galago, Cuvier, lieg. Anirn, torn 1. 

 p. 119, note. 



-Galago Broxvnii, Smith. (Brown's Galago.) Above fine 

 grey, with a tinge of brown around the eyes ; beneath white; 

 tail as long as the body, hairy and brownish ; eyes red. Size 

 less than that of a rat. 



Inhabits Madagascar. 



Brown's Illvstrations of Zoology, 4to. pi. 44. Le petit Ga- 

 lago, Cuvier, Reg. Animal, t. 1. p. 119, 7iote. 



Obs. Many Naturalists consider this, and the last described, as identi- 

 cal. The celebrated Cuvier however viewed them as distinct, and upon 



• The specimen examined by Mr. Bonnet was young, and the teeth 

 were not comi'lete. 



