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favoris, un bandeau frontal on nieme tout le front et le vertex 

 d'un roux vif ; taudts que la femelle offre des favoris blaucs et un 

 large bandeau noir sur le devant du front, sans nulle trace de roux. 

 Ce bandeau noir tsttres caraeteristique pour la femelle du Mongoz, 

 et ue se retrouve pas non plus dans aucune autre espece du 

 genre." ^ 



Four specimens of a Lemur collected by Mr. C. E. Bewsher in 

 Anjuan and preserved in the British Museum have been described 

 by Griinther, likewise under the name L. anjunnensis. It is stated 

 that Peters's description of the female "agrees entirely with a 

 specimen of the same sex obtained by Mr. Bewsher." The three 

 males are exactly alike ; " the face before the eyes is white, the 

 nose blackish, the forehead with mixed black and whitish hairs ; 

 the side of the throat below the eye, and the throat itself, bright 

 bro\xnish red ; crown, back, outer side of the legs, and the greater 

 part of the tail grey, with a not very perceptible rufous tinge on 

 the rump ; chest and abdomen greyish, with a I'ufous tinge; inner 

 side of the legs with scarcely any white ; hands and feet grey (in 

 one specimen whitish); the terminal third or fourth of the tail 

 blackish." ' 



It will have been observed that Peters states the snout of the 

 female to be black. The female in the British Museum, said by 

 Griinther to agree with the one described by the former writer, has 

 only the tip of the nose black. Peters may have used the term 

 " Schnauze " in a loose sense, or he may have disregarded the 

 whitish hairs covering the dark skin of the snout ^. The agreement 

 with the British Museum specimens from Anjuan is so perfect in all 

 the other characters, that I have given Peters's specimen a place in 

 the synonymy of Lemur mongoz. 



A specimen in the British Museum (Z. D. 'No. 79.11.12.7), 

 collected by Dr. (Sir John) Kirk in another of the Comores, 

 Mohilla, agrees exactly in the characters of the skin with the male 

 specimens from Anjuan. The cranial characters are those of the 

 species under consideration (see below). This is the onl}^ record 

 of a Lemur occurring in Mohilla Island. 



In their " Etudes sur les Mammiferes et les Oiseaux des lies 

 Comores" *, A. Milne-Ed vA-ards and Oustalet state that the species 

 of Lemur, common in the forests of the Island of Anjuan, at about 

 1000 metres, is the Lemur alhimanus E. Geoffr. S.-H. They deny 

 that this species has ever been found in Madagascar : " Le Lemur 

 albimanus a ete de'crit par Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire d'apres un 

 exemplaire de la collection du Museum rapporte par Peron et 

 Lesueur, lors de I'expeditiou de la corvette le Qeographe, en 1803, 

 et indique comme recueilh a Madagascar. Or jamais, a notre 



' Op. cit. p. 312. Sehlegel adds : "M. Sclater a indique a I'inverse le sexe 

 de ces deux individus. ' This applies, of course, ouly to the explanation of the 

 figures in pi. xvi. of the P. Z. S. 1871. 



■' Ann. Mag, Nat. Hist. (5) iii. p. 215 (1879). 



■' Cf. plates 162-165 in Grandidier's Atlas. 



^ Nouv. Arch. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. (2) x. p. 222 (1888). 



