LOBTS. 



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and grasps with great tenacity. If placed on the ground, it can 

 proceed, if frightened, in a wavering kind of trot, the limbs placed 

 at right angles. It sleeps rolled up in a ball, its head and hands 

 buried between its thighs, and wakes up at the dusk of evening to 

 commence its nocturnal rambles. The female bears but one young 

 at a time." 



Genus LORIS, Geoffroy, 1796. 



Head short ; nose narrow ; body slender ; limbs very slender 

 and long; tail Avanting : ears larger than in JS^i/ciicebus, rounded, 

 and naked towards the margin ; eyes very large and close 

 together. 



Skull with orbits that are very close together, merely separated 

 by a very thin bony plate, and so large that the breadth across the 

 orbits is greater than that across the zygomatic arches ; muzzle 

 narrow anteriorly. Yertebrse : C. 7, D. io, L. 8, S. 3, C. 6-8. 



Dentition: i. ^, c. ^, pm. |^, m. ^. The upper incisors all 



small and of equal size, 

 developed tubercles. 



Hindmost upper molar with four well- 



Fig. I'd. — Loris graciliis. 



27. Loris gracilis. The slender Loria, 



Loris gracilis, Geoffr. Magasin Encyclopedique, An 4' (1796), t. i, 

 p. 48 ; Bhjth, Cat. p. 19 ; Jerdon, Mam. p. 15 ; Anderson, Cat. 

 p. 97. 



Stenops gracilis, Kelaart, Prod. p. 9. 



Devdnga-pilK, Tel. ; Tevdngu, Tarn. ; Nala and Adavi-mamishija, Can. ; 

 Chinge-Kuli, Kurg ; Una happulava, Cing. 



