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his eyes lost their lustre and strength, and he composed himself for a 

 slumber of ten or eleven hours. 



" As to his country, the first of the species that I saw in India was 

 in the district of Tipra, properly Tripura, whither it had been brought, 

 like mine, from the Garrow Mountains ; and Dr. Anderson informs me, 

 that it is found in the woods on the coast of Coromandel. Another 

 had been sent to a member of our society from one of the eastern isles, 

 and though the Loris may be also a native of Silan, yet I cannot agree 

 with M. de Buffon that it is the minute, sociable, and docile animal 

 mentioned by Thevenot, which it resembles neither in size nor in dis- 

 position. 



" My little friend was, on the whole, very engaging, and when he 

 was found lifeless, in the same posture in which he would naturally 

 have slept, I consoled myself with believing that he died without pain, 

 and lived with as much pleasure as he could have enjoyed in a state of 

 captivity." 



The habits of both species of Stenops are strictly nocturnal. Dr. 

 Miiller states that they are found in large forests, chiefly in moun- 

 tainous districts, where they sleep during the day in holes and fissures 

 of large trees. On the approach of evening they awake ; and during 

 the night they ramble among the branches of trees, slowly and quietly, 

 in quest of their food, which consists chiefly of tender leaves and fruits. 

 They also devour small birds, insects, and mice. Sir T. S. Raffles 

 informs us that the inhabitants of Sumatra have a superstitious aver- 

 sion to these animals, which is confirmed by Dr. Miiller. 



Genus TARSIUS, Stoll et al 



LEMUR, Pallas et al. DIDELPHIS, Schreb. MACKOTAKSUS, 

 Lacep. 



26. TARSI US SPECTRUM, Geoff. Ann. du. Mus. XIX. 

 p. 168. 



Tarsius bancanus, Horsfield, Zool.Res. in Java, junior fide 



Temminckii. 



Lemur spectrum, Pallas. 

 Didelphis macrotarsus, Schreb., Saength. III. p. 554, t. 



155. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. GmeL I. 109. 

 Lemur tarsier, Raffl., Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 337. 

 Tarsier, Buffon. 



HAB. Sumatra, Banka, Borneo, Macassar, Salayer. 

 A. From Banka. 



