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ders; the fore feet and the hind feet to the heel dark brown; tail 
reddish brown, with numerous intermixed longer, black, thicker 
rigid, and slender softer hairs. 
Dr. Kirk has kindly furnished me with the following particulars 
of the habits of this animal. It proves that man is not the only 
animal that likes fermented liquors, and takes them to excess after 
he has once tasted them. (On mentioning this fact to a friend, he 
told me he had, a short time ago, given a half-grown Scotch Terrier 
to a distiller, and that the dog had been returned to him because he 
could uot by any correction be prevented from drinking the spirit 
as it came from the still, or any other spirits it could get, and would 
stagger and reel about, verifying the term, ‘‘a drunken dog,”’ so 
often applied to inebriated men.) 
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“*My pear Gray,—I am acquainted with two species of Galago 
in East Tropical Africa. The one is probably the G. maholi of Smith ; 
but, never having captured specimens for comparison, there remains 
a doubt. Habits and appearance are identical. I have seen it fre- 
quently in the wooded mountainous regions about Tete, on the Zam- 
besi, also on the shores of the Nyassa Lake. During the day it sits 
in trees or bush, is unwilling to move, and stares at the passers by ; 
when it does make off, it goes with great speed by a series of leaps. 
It is active after sunset, when it will dart about, attracted by the 
camp-fires, making leaps of six feet almost horizontally, as noiseless 
as an owl. 
“The second species is the Otolicnus crassicaudatus, differing 
from the specimen under that name in the British Museum in the 
colour of the fur, although no variety was seen among the specimens 
which came under my notice on the coast. 
“While the G. maholi is peculiar to the interior, where its geogra- 
phical range seems to be great, the other, or ‘ Great-tailed Galago,’ 
is confined to the maritime region—so far as I know, never pene- 
trating beyond the band of wood known generally as the mangrove- 
forests. By the Portuguese it is named ‘ Rat of the Cocoa-nut Palm,’ 
that being its favourite haunt by day, nestling among the fronds ; if 
disturbed, performing feats of agility, and darting from one palm to 
another. It will spring with great rapidity, adhering to any object 
as if it were a lump of wet clay. It has one failing; otherwise its 
capture were no easy task. Should a pot of palm-wine be left atop 
the tree, the creature drinks to excess, comes down, and rushes about 
intoxicated. In captivity they are wild, during the day remaining 
either rolled up in a ball or perched half asleep, with ears stowed, 
like a beetle’s wing under the elytra. I had half a dozen squirrels 
with one in the same cage ; these were good friends, the latter creep- 
ing under the ‘ Golgo’s’ soft fur and falling asleep. On introducing 
a fewspecimens of Macroscelides tetradactylus, the ‘Golgo’ seized one 
and bit off its tail, which, however, it did not eat. The food it took 
was biscuit, rice, orange, banana, guava, and a little cooked meat. 
Stupid during the day, it became active at night, or just after dark- 
