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white; tail pale rufous." Total length, about 300 mm.; tail, 150 mm. 

 (Elliot, 1913, vol. 1, p. 104.) 



Schwarz (1931, p. 403) gives the range as "the whole of S.E., 

 E. [=S.], and W. Madagascar, as far north as the Betsiboka River 

 .... Exact limits in central Madagascar not known, but probably 

 only found in the plains. Not extending farther north than Ft. 

 Dauphin on the east coast." He mentions (pp. 402-403) specimens 

 from: Fort Dauphin; Ankazoabo, Bara; Ambolisatra and Itampolo 

 Be, north of Tulear; Tulear; and Morondava. 



Sibree (1915, p. 243) refers to this as one of the most beautiful 

 and interesting of Madagascar lemurids. It "is remarkable also for 

 its large and very resplendent eyes, for the eye admits so much 

 light at dusk that quite an unusual brilliance is produced." 



Three specimens were captured in 1932 in the Manampetsa Re- 

 serve in the southwest (Petit, 1935, p. 474) . 



"At Tabiky [inland from Cape St. Vincent], the mouse lemur 

 was apparently very common and numbers were brought in alive 

 by natives. ... On November 2, 1929, fifteen specimens were 

 brought to me." Remains of a Microcebus were found in a pair of 

 goshawks (Astur henstii) taken near Tabiky. (Rand, 1935, p. 95.) 



Smith's Dwarf Lemur 



MICROCEBUS MURINUS SMITHII (J. E. Gray) 



Cheirogaleus Smithii J. E. Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, vol. 10, p. 257, 

 1842. ("Madagascar"; type locality restricted by Harper (1940, p. 192) 

 to "a few miles north of Fianarantsoa, central Betsileo.") 



FIGS.: Forbes, 1894, vol. 1, pi. 6; Beddard, 1902, p. 544, fig. 260. 



This lemur was reported as tolerably abundant by Shaw in 1879 

 (p. 135). Although scarcely any later information is at hand, its 

 nocturnal habits and its penchant for the tops of the highest trees 

 have perhaps safeguarded it from serious depletion. 



Gray's type description (1842, p. 257) is as follows: "Pale brown; 

 streak up the nose and forehead, the chin and beneath paler; tail 

 redder." Schwarz (1931, p. 401) distinguishes this subspecies from 

 M. m. murinus as follows: "Tail not longer or shorter than head 

 and body. Colour above reddish brown; an indistinct dorsal band 

 sometimes present. Facial streak accompanied on both sides by a 

 distinct black stripe which extends as far as but hardly beyond 

 the eyes." Both body and tail are about 180 mm. in length in a 

 specimen from Majunga, north of the Bay of Bombetoka, which 

 Lorenz-Liburnau records (1898, p. 445) as M. myoxinus. 



Schwarz (1931, p. 403) records specimens from: Vohemar, NE. 

 coast; Mananara, Bay of Antongil; Mahambo, north of Foulpointe, 

 NE. coast; Anabama Forest, Lake Alaotra; Ivohimanitra, Tanala; 



