332 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



P. S. M. Geoffroi St. Hillaire considers the Fennec of 

 Bruce called also Zerda, Canis Cerdo Megalotis, fyc, as, 

 if not of the same species as the Galago of Senegal at least 

 of the family of the Galagos. It is impossible within our 

 limits to follow this eminent naturalist through the detail 

 of his arguments. He seems, however, from a review of 

 the accounts of Bruce and others, to establish the following 

 affinities between them. 



" Both are of the same length, the ears one and half as 

 long as the head, the eyes large, the head spheriodal, the 

 muzzle slender and short ; both are of the same colour; both 

 nocturnal ; both live in trees and nestle in their trunks ; and 

 both inhabit regions of Africa, which if not very neighbour- 

 ing, are of the same climateric constitution." 



This writer establishes four species. 1. The Galago of 

 Madagascar. 2. Galago Murinus, " Little Maccauco," 

 brown, " Lemur Murinus," Pennant. 3. Galago with 

 tufted tail, (crassicandatus). 4. Galago of Senegal, (Lemur 

 Galago. Shaw,) to which he thinks the Fennec should be 

 added, to form a fifth species. 



Some additional Remarks on the Order Quadrumana in ge- 

 neral, and more especially on the Nomenclature of that 

 Order. 

 Having gone through the various species of the quadru- 

 mana, and omitted nothing which we deemed at all likely 

 to interest or instruct our readers respecting the confor- 

 mation, instincts, habits, natural disposition and degree 

 of intelligence belonging to each, we should yet esteem our 

 task unfinished without a few additional observations, 

 chiefly relative to the systematic arrangements of some 

 naturalists and the different nomenclatures of this order, 

 which had been generally adopted previously to the publi- 

 cation of the " Regne Animal." It may be thought, 



