62 MAMMALIA. 



Lem. (jraeilis{a\ L. (The Slender Loris). Buff. XIII. 30, and 

 better, Seb. I. 47. Fa^vn-coloured grey; no dorsal stripe; a little 

 smaller than the preceding; nose more raised by a projection of the 

 intermaxillaries *. 



Galago, Geoff. — Otolicnus, Fllig. 



Have the teeth and live on the insectivorous food of the preceding; 

 elongated tarsi which produce a disproportion in the dimensions of their 

 hind feet; a long tufted tail; large membranous ears and great eyes, 

 which imply a nocturnal life. 



There are several species known, all from Africa f. It would ap- 

 pear that we should refer to these also an animal of that country 

 {Lemur potto, Gm.), the Bosman, Voy. in Guin., p. 252, No. 4, 

 whose gait is said to be as slow as that of the Loris and Sloths. 



Tarsius. 



The Tarsiers have the tarsi elongated, and all the other peculiarities of 

 form belonging to the preceding division ; but the space between their 

 grinders and incisors is occupied by several shorter teeth ; the middle su- 

 perior incisors are lengthened and resemble the canine. The muzzle is 

 very short, and the eyes still larger than those of all the preceding. They 

 are nocturnal animals, and feed on insects. From the Moluccas. Lemur 

 spectrum, Pall., Buff. XIII. 9+. 



* From this difference in tlie nose, M. Geoffroy makes of the first species the 

 genus Nycticebus, and of the second that of Loris. 



f Tlie great Galago, as large as a rabhit {Galago crassicaudatu.i, Geoff.) The 

 middling one the size of a rat {Galago senegahnsis, id.); Schreb. XXXVIII. Bb. 

 Audeb. Gal. pi. 1. — The small one a little less, Brown, 111. 44. — Compare also the 

 Galago of Demidorf, Fischer, iMem. des Nat. de Moscou, I. pi. 1. 



;J: Compare the Tarsius fuscomanus, Fischer, Annat. des Makis, pi. 3, and the 

 Tarsius hancanus, Horsfield, Java. 



Travellers should search for certain animals drawn by Comraerson, and which 

 M. Geoffroy has had engraved, Ann. Mus. XIX. 10, under the name of Cheirogaleus. 

 These figiu-es seem to announce a new genus or subgenus of the Quadrumana. 



i^ (a) In the examination of a specimen of this species which recently died in the 

 Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park, the distribution of the arteries to the limbs was 

 found to be analogous to that very peculiar one which obtains in the Lemurs and 

 Sloths, except, that in the Loris the structure and distribution of the vessels supply- 

 ing the blood appeared to be destined more to the object of increasing the tenacity of 

 the animal's grasp, and to allow to him to prolong the state of muscular contraction 

 with impunity. — Eng. Ed. 



