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C. The Skin. In specimens preserved in formalin, the skin 

 where exposed has a light yellow tint. It is darker on the plantar 

 aspect of the foot, and still darker on the palmar or volar surface 

 of the hand. The lack of pigmentation at the sites of the vibrissae 

 about the face has been noted in the preceding section (B). 



Paw 



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Fig. 54. Tarsius spectrum, 

 the body. (From Schwalbe.) 



Scheme of the hair-tracts on the dorsal aspect of 



True scales are said to occur on the ventral surface of the tail. 

 In that position I have observed a cutaneous patch, but this 

 resembled the palmar and plantar surfaces for it was marked 

 by cutaneous grooves in two convergent series. 



D. The hands and feet (Figs. 56 and 57) bear distinct pads 

 on their ventral (flexor) aspects. Moreover the surface is rather 



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