74 MAMMALIA. 
They feed on insects, occasionally on small birds and quadrupeds, 
their gait is excessively slow, and mode of life nocturnal. M. Car- 
lisle has found that the base of the arteries of the limbs is divided 
into small branches, as in the true Sloths. Two species only are 
known, both of them from the East Indies. 
Lem. tardigradus, L.; (The Slow Loris, or Sloth of Bengal.) 
Buff. Supp. VII, 36. Fawn-coloured grey, a brown streak 
along the back; two of the upper incisors sometimes want- 
ing.(1) 
Lem. gracilis, L. (The Slender Loris.) Buff. XIII, 50, and 
better, Seb. I, 47. Fawn-coloured grey; no dorsal stripe; 
rather smaller than the preceding; nose more raised by a pro- 
jection of the intermaxillaries.(2): 
GALAGo, Geoff. —Ororixcus, Illig. 
The teeth and insectivorous regimen of the preceding ; elongated 
tarsi which produce a disproportion in the dimensions of their hind 
feet; a long tufted tail; large membranous ears and great eyes, 
which announce nocturnal habits. 
There are seyeral species known, all from Africa.(3) It ap- 
pears also that we should refer to them an animal of that coun- 
try (Lemur potto, Gm.), Bosman, Voy. in Guin., p. 252, No. 
4, whose gait is said to be as slow as that of the Loris and 
Sloths. 
TARsIws. ry 
Elongated tarsi, and all the other details of form belonging to the 
preceding division; but the space between the molars and incisors 
is occupied by several shorter teeth ; the middle superior incisors 
are lengthened and resemble canini. The muzzle is very short, and 
the eyes still larger than those of the Galago. They are nocturnal 
animals, and feed) on insects. From the Moluccas. Lemur. spec- 
trum, Pall., Buff. XIII, 9. (4) —e ‘ ; 
(1) The slowness of its gait, which parca it to be itipkell fotla'Sloth, hs ines 
induced some authors to maintain, in opposition to Bpfion and to Sd that eg 
genus of the Sloths exists also in Asia.» s 
(2) From this difference in the nose, Geoffroy Bom, of fio faeces Shed 
genus Nrericervs, and of the second that o ‘Loris. ° 
(S) The great Galago, as large asa Rabbit (Galago crassicaudatus, Geoff.). _ The 
middling one tthe size of a Rat (Galago senegalensis, id.); Schreb.XXXVIII, Bb, 
Audeb. Gal. pl. 1—The small one a little less, Brown, Ill. 44.—Compare also the, — 
Galago of Demidorf, Fischer, Mem. des Nat. de Mouscou, [, pl. 1. pir 
(4) Compare the Tarsius fuscomanus, Fischer, Annat. des Makis, pl. 3 : aud 
the Tarsius bancanus, Horsfield, Java. Athi Oi 
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