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That the lemurs, though now n I to Madagascar, 



eastern Asia, and South Africa, were preceded by still more 



eralized types on the American continent, is indie 

 by the disc* in the Eo ' the 



v Mountains, referred by Marsh and Cope to the Pri- 

 -• Marsh stating that the principal parts of the Bkele- 



Fio alago. From Lutken's Zoo! 



ton are "much as in Bome of the lemurs." The genus 

 I pkus of the Western Tertiary beds is a small 



lemur-like form, said by Cope to be tl I like the i 



of any yet discovered. 



Allied to the true lemurs is a very puzzling re. the 



aye-aye or Chiromys, of Madagascar, wh • ion dif- 



Erom that of all other Pri nates, and resembh - tha 

 the Rodents; the thumb als - • . and 



all the hind digits, except the great toes, have claw-like 



