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appears to be restricted to the coast-district, never going beyond the mano-rove-belt 

 bordering the shore. The leaves of the cocoa-palm form its sleeping-place; and 

 when startled, it will leap from the crown of one palm to another. The natives 

 capture these galagos by leaving calabashes of palm wine on the trees, by drinkino- 

 which the little creatures become intoxicated and helpless. 



Professor F. B. 

 Loomis is of opinion 

 that lemurs, of which 

 the earliest known re- 

 presentatives are the 

 Lower Eocene Anapto- 

 onorphidce and Notharc- 

 ticlcc, originated in the 

 forest tract north of 

 Hudson Bay, which then 

 enjoyed a tropical cli- 

 mate. From this ances- 

 tral centre the first 

 Primates, along with 

 other groups, migrated 

 by three paths, one south 

 into America, a second to 

 England and France, and 

 a third to Asia, and thence 

 southerly across China 

 and India, and along the Indo- 

 Madagascar isthmus to Madagascar 

 and Africa. At an early date the group 

 became differentiated into fruit-eaters 

 — Anaptomorphidce — followed by the 

 modern Tarsiidce and general feeders 

 — Notharctidce — which gave rise to 

 the tropical American Cebidce and the ex- 

 tinct European Adapidw, from which are 

 derived the Old World apes and monkeys, 

 while a side - branch gave rise to true 

 lemurs. 



In Angola the genus is represented by 

 Monteiro's galago (G. monteiri), which is 

 slightly larger, and, instead of dark brown, pale grey in colour, with the sides of 

 the nose somewhat darker, and the throat and tail nearly or entirely white. Other 

 members of the group are G. garnetti of the east coast, G. senegalensis, which was 

 the first species to be brought to Europe, G. alleni from the Gabun, G. demidoffi 

 of central Africa, and the white-tailed G. lasiotis, and G. moholi, whose range 

 extends from Angola through Rhodesia, the Transvaal, and Nyasaland to the 

 east coast. 



WHITE-TAILED GALAGO. 



