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soft. The tail is long, and covered with hair at the root and tip, 

 while the middle portion of it is nearly bare. The eyes are 

 enormous, and indeed seem, together with the equally large ears, to 

 constitute the greater part of the face, for the jaw and nose are very 

 small, and the latter is set on, like that of a pug dog, almost at a 



THE TAKSIEK. {Tursius speciraiii.) 



risht angle. The hind limb at once attracts attention from the 

 great length of the tarsal bones, and the hand is equally noticeable 

 for its length, the curious claws with which it is provided, and the 

 extraordinary disc-shaped pulps on the palmar surface of the 

 fingers, which probably enable the animal to retain its hold in 

 almost any position. This weird-looking little creature we were 

 unable to keep long in capti^ity, for we could not get it to eat the 

 cockroaches wdiich were almost the onlv food with which we could 



