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itself, with affinities to the macaques and the baboons. It is likewise a short-tailed, 

 or rather almost tailless, species, and its long narrow face looks all the longer from 

 the curving crest of long black hair with which the head is crowned. 



Among the lemurs, the slow loris is common to the mainland 

 and Sumatra, Java, and Borneo, but the strange tarsiers are confined 

 to the islands of the Archipelago. The typical Tarsius spectrum is an inhabitant 



Tarsier. 



THE BLACK APE. 



of Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and some of the smaller islands, and a second species, T. 

 fuscus, has been described from Celebes and some of the islands of the Philippine 

 group. Ghostly in appearance, tarsiers are characterised externally by their nails, 

 which are developed into claws only on the second and third toes of the foot, but 

 more especially by the disc-like expansion of the tips of the fingers and toes, as 

 well as by the remarkably long ankles and the enormous eyes and ears. Tarsiers, 

 which are not so large as rats, are nocturnal animals, living in trees, where they 

 hop along the branches. When feeding, they hold their food, which consists of 

 insects and small lizards, between their fore-paws like squirrels. 



