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Hope by Sir Thomas Adams in the TerjJsicore Man-of-War and 

 presented to her Majesty [Queen Charlotte]. 1762." 



I think there is considerable probability that this print (text- 

 fig. 89) and the royal picture were taken from one and the same 

 animal, although the general drawing and the details of the 

 stripes are far less true to nature in the former than in the latter ; 

 biit Kehrer's portrait could not have been done at the Hague 

 while the animal was en route for England, and there is no record 

 of its having heen taken there later. If both pictures represent 

 the same animal, Queen Charlotte's Zebra, as the individual repre- 

 sented in the old print may be called, appears to have been the 

 first of its kind ever brought to England. 



7. On Two Lorises. By E. Lydekkee. 



[Received October 31, 1904.J 



(Plate XXIII.*) 



The Trustees of the British Museum have recently pui-chased 

 from Rowland Ward, Ltd., two mounted specimens of Lorises 

 belonging to forms hitherto unfigiu'ed, and one of which I regard 

 as new ; the fii-st specimen being a Slow Loris {Xycticehus), and 

 the second a Slender Loris (^Loris). Both of these genera, it may 

 be observed, appear to be represented only by a single species, if 

 we except the ill-defined ^A^. menagensis of the Philippines. 

 Whereas, however, several local forms of the Slow Loris have 

 been recognised, the Slender Loris has hitherto been undivided. 



As regards the Slow Loris, Messrs. Stone and Rehn, in the 

 ■' Proceedings ' of the Philadelj)hia Academy for 1902 (pp. 138 & 

 139), recognised five local forms, naraelj, JTycticebas tanligraclus'f 

 tijincus of India, ^Y. t. javanicas, X. t, malayanus, X. t. natunrp, and 

 X. t. hilleri (of Sumatra) ; the two last being described for the 

 first time. In addition to these there is the Tenassei'im form, of 

 which no examples were at the time available. 



The first two of the five races mentioned above are gi-ouped 

 together in a section characterised by the general colour being 

 ashy grey, slightly tinged with rufous, while the crown of the 

 head is not marked by a large patch of brown. In the three 

 remaining races, on the other hand, the general coloiu' is rufes- 

 cent grey, and the crown of the head has a large brown patch. 

 Omitting mention of the Xatuna Islands' form, the Malay race — 

 as represented in the collection of the British Museum liy three 

 mounted specimens from Penang (PI. XXIII. fig. 1), the gift of 

 Capt. Stanley Flower — is characterised by the general i-ufescent 

 grey tone of the fur, and the strongly pronounced rufous-brown 

 •crown-patch and dorsal stripe t. This crown-patch has a pair of 

 lines extending transversely outwards to the ears, and another 



* For explanation of the Plate, see p. 346. 



t Messrs. Stone & Eehn substitute the name coiicang. 



X This does not accord with Messrs. Stone & Kehn's description. 



