NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 



in silence throughout the warm summer's night, 

 ready to seize and swallow any of these graceful 

 little creatures which, in their gambols from ^branch 

 to branch, might approach within striking distance. 



Skulls of the two typical South African Galagos. (i) Moholi 

 Galago (Galago moholi); (2) Garnett's Galago (Galago gar- 

 nettf). The skulls are natural size. 



Again, escaping these formidable enemies, the serval, 

 the Kafir cat, and the leopard are ever on the watch 

 for it. During the daytime, when it is half blind, 

 and therefore more or less helpless, the galago is 

 pounced upon by certain of the species of eagles 

 which, spying it lying coiled up asleep in the fork of 



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