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Ilahits. This species is ol' course ai'boreal, and by means of its 

 jiarachute can throw itself from one tree and glide through tlie 

 air to another at a considerable distance. Wallace relates that 

 he saw one pass from one tree to another 70 yards distant, witli 

 a fall of only one in five ; and he remarks that the animal must 



Fig. 71. — Galeointhecus volans. (From a drawing by Col. Tickell.) 



liave some power of guiding itself in the air, as otherwise it could 

 not alight on the trunk of the tree to which its flight is directed. 

 It is entirely nocturnal in its habits, and is said to remain hanging 

 on the stem or branch of a tree head downwards during the day, 

 its peculiar mottled coloration being very similar to that of the 

 ]3ark. 



Galeopithecus is said to be purely herbivorous, feeding on k^ave-s 

 and fruits. It has but one young one at a time. 



