TRUE LEMURS. 



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shoots of these plants, as well as on their leaves. In such jungles its capture is 

 difficult, and hence living examples are rare in our menageries. One living in the 

 Zoological Society's Gardens in the year 1870 was regarded by the late Dr. Gray 

 as a new species, and described as the broad-nosed lemur (H. simus), but it does 



THE GENTLE LEMUR (\ nat. size). 



not appear to be more than a variety. According to a French traveller, the gentle, 

 or grey lemur is known to the natives of Madagascar as the Bokombouli. 



THE WEASEL-LEMUR. 



Genus Lepidolemur. 



The slender, or weasel-lemur, is the last representative of the present group, 

 and belongs to a genus containing two species, which differ from all other lemur- 

 like animals in having, when adult, either no upper front (incisor) teeth at all, or 

 merely a single pair of minute rudimentary ones. This character will at once 



