ORDER PRIMATES: PRIMATES 129 



the meantime. It seems fairly necessary, therefore, to class it 

 among the extinct species. 



"Brownish grey; lower parts grey, with the hairs white-tipped. 

 A triangular spot in front of the eye black; median line of the 

 snout and lips whitish. Hands and feet grey, with white-tipped 

 hairs. Ears very short, hidden in the fur. The lower part of the 

 concha and the space before the ear covered with a tuft of very 

 long hairs. Tail rather shorter than the body, covered with short 

 hairs . . , . All the nails pointed, claw-like." Head and body, 152 

 mm.; tail, 149 mm. (Gunther, 18756, pp. 78-79.) "This species 

 differs from all the members of this genus in the tufts of hair 

 standing out from the ears and sides of head, above the ears" (Elliot, 

 1913, vol. l,p. 97). 



Elliot's authority for giving (p. 96) the range of the species as 

 the "forests of Antsianak" is not apparent. The exact type locality 

 is unknown, and no information is at hand concerning the route fol- 

 lowed by Crossley, the collector of the type, on his way from Ta- 

 matave on the east coast to Morondava on the west coast. 



Fork-marked Lemur. Maki a fourche (Fr.) 



PHANER FURCIFER (Blainville) 



L[emur] furdfer Blainville, Osteogr., Mammif., Primates, Lemur, p. 35, 1839. 



(Type locality not stated originally; "probably the region of the Bay of 



Antongil, N.E. Madagascar" (Schwarz, 1931, p. 407).) 

 FIGS.: Blainville, Osteogr., Mammif., Primates, Atlas, Lemur, pi. 7, 1839; 



Schlegel and Pollen, 1868, pi. 5; Milne Edwards, Grandidier and Filhol, 



1897, pi. 259, fig. 3. 



The Fork-marked Lemur was formerly abundant in Madagascar 

 and is still fairly common. 



Upper parts reddish gray ; outer side of limbs dark rufous ; throat 

 pale rufous; chin and rest of under parts yellowish; a black stripe 

 from lower part of back to crown, where it bifurcates, one branch 

 ending over each eye; hands and feet dark brown; tail bushy, dark 

 reddish brown with black tip. Total length about 600 mm.; tail, 

 350 mm. (Elliot, 1913, vol. 1, p. 109.) 



"This species has been recorded by Pollen and van Dam from 

 various localities on the N.W. coast, north of the Bay of Bombetoka 

 (Bay of Ampasindava, Jangoa River, Kongony River), but also 

 farther south at Morondava, on the W. coast. Found by M. J. 

 Audebert at Tassumbe/ N.E. coast." (Schwarz, 1931, p. 407.) He 

 also states that "there is no definite record of the occurrence of this 

 species considerably south of the Bay of Antongil." He mentions 

 having examined specimens from Vohemar, NE. coast, and An- 

 doany, NW. coast. 



