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raon to all Lemurs^ and which they use as scrapers, 

 and not to bite with. Besides these, nearly all its 

 teeth are serrated cutting-teeth and are arranged, 

 not in opposition, but so as mutually to intersect. In 

 this respect it is admirably accomodated to suit the 

 country in which it lives, as with the greatest facility 

 it can bite off the young shoots of the bamboo, and 

 mince up a whole handful of grass blades and stalks 

 at once, each bite cutting clean like a pair of scissors 

 Like very many grass-eating animals, it seems to feed 

 nearly all day long. It is also unlike other Lemurs 

 in its dislike of fruit. It is very fond of cooKed-meat, 

 and also of sugar-cane. It is furnished with a remark- 

 ably broad pad on each of the hinder thumbs, by 

 means of which it is enabled to grasp firmly even the 

 smoothest surfaces. Unlike most other Lemurs, its 

 head is very round, although the female has a some- 

 what more pointed snout than the specimen in tho 

 Zoological Garden (Lend.) Its cry is very peculiar, 

 at times resembling the quack of a Duck at other 

 times, loud and piercing. Its tail is long, but not 

 very bushy. 



3. The Brown Mouse -Lemurs. (Probably the 

 Chirogaleus Milii, Geoffr.) This kind is nocturnal in 

 its habits ; and its food consists of fruit and possibly 

 honey ; of this there is abundance in tho forests on 

 the Eastern side of Betsileo, from the lv)wer parts of 

 which the specimen in my possession (writes Mr Shaw) 

 was brought. This one is full grown, about 7 or 8 



