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of Madagascar, as so many varieties of one species, Lemur 

 mongoz. Of these varieties, the most important are : 



THE RED-FOOTED LEMUR. LEMUR RUFIPES. 



Male. Face in front of a line above the eyes, dark reddish- 

 brown; hands and feet bright rufous-brown; under side of 

 body and inner side of limbs reddish-grey. 



Female. Wrist and ankles with adjacent part of limbs above 

 brownish-red. 



THE RED-FRONTED LEMUR. LEMUR RUFIFRONS. 



Male. Grizzly, washed with rufous ; fore-arms, hands, feet, 

 haunches, outer side of legs, and top of the head between the 

 ears, rufous. 



Female. Grizzly brown ; top of head grizzly black ; patch 

 over and round the eyes greyish-white. 



THE GREY-HEADED LEMUR. LEMUR CINEREICEPS. 



Face and frontal spot black ; cheeks, sides, top of head, side 

 of neck, and outside of ears grey ; rest of body orange-red. 



THE COLLARED LEMUR. LEMUR COLLARIS. 



Male. Head blackish-brown ; cheeks, sides of throat, mark 

 over eyes, and base of ears, yellowish grey, washed with orange- 

 red or rufous ; a spot at the side of the nose, grey; chin, throat, 

 and under side of the body, blackish-grey. 



Female Centre of nose black ; sides of nose, chin, cheeks, 

 including the eyes, ears, sides of throat, iron-grey, slightly 

 flushed at the lower side of the neck under the ears with 

 reddish-orange. Specimens from the island of Mayotte (L. 

 mayottensis, Schl.) differ from L. collaris in having a blackish 

 spot over the root of the tail. 



