ORDER PRIMATES: PRIMATES 131 



kinds of berries and fruits growing in the forest; but it would not 

 touch any of them." It fed steadily and regularly upon grass. 



G. M. Allen (1918, p. 516) records two specimens from near Am- 

 batondrazaka. 



An indication of the rarity of this species is the fact that no speci- 

 mens were reported by the Mission Zoologique Franco-Anglo-Ameri- 

 caine of 1929-31. 



Gray Lemur 



HAPALEMUR GRISEUS GRISEUS (Link) 



L[emur] griseus Link, Beytr. Naturg., vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 65, 1795. (Based upon 



"Le petit Maki gris" of Buffon (Hist. Nat., suppl., vol. 7, p. 121, 1789); 



type locality, Madagascar. ) 

 SYNONYMS: Lemur griseus E. Geoffroy (1796); Lemur cinereus Desmarest 



(1820); Hapalemur schlegeli Pocock (1917). 

 FIGS.: Buffon, Hist. Nat., suppl., vol. 7, pi. 34, 1789; Audebert, 1800, pi. 7; 



Schlegel and Pollen, 1868, pi. 3; Milne Edwards, Grandidier and Filhol, 



1896, pis. 122 B, 122 D (fig. 2), 122 F. 



Extremely little new information concerning this subspecies has 

 come to light during the past 70 years. It must have become 

 quite rare. 



Upper parts light olive-brown, brighter on top of the head; rest 

 of head gray; cheeks, throat, breast, and inner side of limbs ochra- 

 ceous-white; tail a little darker than the back. Total length, 24 

 inches; tail, 13^ inches. (Schlegel and Pollen, 1868, p. 7; Forbes, 

 1894, vol. 1, p. 81.) The general grayish green of this subspecies 

 is contrasted with the reddish green of H . g. olivaceus. The presence 

 of a wrist gland distinguishes both of these forms from H. simus. 

 (Schwarz, 1931, p. 408.) 



Schwarz (1931, p. 408) gives the range of the present form as 

 follows: "The whole south and west, and the dry central plateau 

 as far east as Lake Alaotra ; it also goes north beyond the Betsiboka 

 River in the north-west." He records specimens from the following 

 localities: Lake Alaotra and Ambatondrazaka, central northeastern 

 Madagascar; District Ambalavo, in the southeast; and Tany Ma- 

 landi, in the northwest. 



According to Schlegel and Pollen (1868, pp. 7-8), this lemur in 

 northwestern Madagascar inhabits by preference the forests of 

 bamboo. It was found at a few days' journey from the coast, along 

 the Ambassuana River in the Tanimalandy district. It is entirely 

 nocturnal, and sleeps during the day on the highest stems of the 

 bamboos. The stomachs of all specimens were found filled with 

 bamboo leaves. 



Delacour (1932, p. 219) records 25 specimens of "Hapalemur 

 griseus" as collected by the Mission Zoologique Franco-Anglo-Ameri- 



