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seems hardly yet determined. LinnaBus and Pallas joined 

 them to the lemurs. Geoffroy St. Hilaire attached them to 

 the cheiroptera, or rather made them intermediate between 

 the lemurs and bats. Our author, as we have seen, has 

 placed them at the end of the cheiroptera, considering 

 them apparently as more approximated by their organiza- 

 tion to the omnivorous mammalia than to the quadrumana. 

 Illiger makes them the first family of his volitantia, the 

 cheiroptera of the Baron. It appears, says M. F. Cuvier, 

 that the true place of these animals in their natural order 

 is between the lemur and bat, whether we consider them 

 with Linnaeus as the last of the former, or with M. Geoflroy 

 at the head of the latter. 



The oleck, red galeopithecus, {lemur volans, L.) whose de- 

 scription is sufficiently stated in the text and table, is said 

 to emit a strong and disagreeable odour, though its flesh is 

 perfectly palatable. The Pelew Islanders call it oleck, 

 which should be adopted in preference to its factitious but 

 more scientific appellative. The figure of the animal is 

 from a specimen in a Mr. Bullock's late museum, with a 

 young one attached to the teat. The figure in Audebert's 

 History of Monkeys and Lemurs, like most of the rest in 

 that splendid work, is very good and accurate in its detail. 



The varied galeopithecus of Audebert is smaller than the 

 preceding, of a darkish brown, varied with white spots on 

 the legs. It seems likely to be a young individual of the 

 preceding species. 



Seba's figure has been treated as of a distinct species, 

 under the name of the galeopithecus of Ternate. The fur is 

 reddish-gray, soft, like that of the mole, deeper in shade 

 above than below, with some white spots on the tail. 



Whatever may be the real number of species of this sin- 

 gular family, the distinctiveness of those above enumerated 

 seeme at present uncertain. 



