230 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



ears, and great eyes which indicate nocturnal 

 habits. 



Several species of these are known, all African *. 

 Another African animal seems proper to be referred 

 to this species. (Lemur Potto. Gru.) Bosman voy. 

 en Guin. p. 252, No. 4., to which a slowness is attri- 

 buted comparable to that of the Loris or Sloths. 



The Tarsiers, (Tarsius) 



Have the elongated Tarsi, and all the other details 

 of form peculiar to the preceding sub-genus. But 

 the interval between the molars and incisives, is 

 filled by several short canini. The incisives are four 

 in number above and two only below. These are 

 also nocturnal animals and live on insects. They 

 come from the Moluccas. (Lemur Spectrum, Pall.) 

 Buff. XIII. ix. t 



* The great Galago as large as a hare (Galago, crassicaudatus, 

 Geoff.) the middling of the size of a rat, (Galago Senegalensis, 

 id.) Schreb. XXXVIII. Bb.Aud, Gal. pi. 1. The little, still smaller. 

 Brown ill. 44. Compare also the Galago of Demidof Fischer. 

 Mem. des. natr. de Moscou. I. pi. i. 



t Compare the Tarsius fuscomanus. Fischer. Anat. des Makis, 

 pi. III. 



N.B. Travellers should seek out certain animals drawn by 

 Commerson, and engraved by direction of M. Geoff. Ann. Mus. 

 XIX. x. under the name of cheirogaleus. These figures seem to 

 announce a new genus or sub-genus of quadrumana. 



