60 MAMMALIA. 



LoRis. — Stekops, Illig. 



The Lazy Monkeys, as they are called, have teeth like the Makis, the 

 grinders excepted, the points of which are more acute; the short muzzle 

 of a mastiff; body slender; no tail; large eyes; tongue rough. 



They feed on insects, occasionally on small birds and quadrupeds, their 

 gait is excessively slow, and mode of life nocturnal. Two species only are 

 known, both of them from the East Indies: one is the 



Lem. tardigradus, L. (The Slow Loris, or Sloth of Bengal.) Fawn- 

 coloured grey, a brown streak along the back; two of the upper incisors 

 sometimes wanting. The second species is called the Slender Loris. 



Galago, Geoff. — OTOi.iiirctJS, Illig. 



The teeth and insectivorous regimen of the preceding; elongated tarsi 

 which produce a disproportion in the dimensions of their hind feet; a long 

 tufted tail; large membranous ears and great eyes, which announce noc- 

 turnal habits. 



There are several species known, all from Africa. It appears also that 

 we should refer to them an animal of that country {Lemur potto, Gm.), 

 whose gait is said to be as slow as that of the Loris and Sloths. 



Tarsitts. 

 Elongated tarsi, and all the other details of form belonging to the pre- 

 ceding division; but the space between the molars and incisors is occupied 

 by several shorter teeth; the middle superior incisors are lengthened and 

 resemble canini. The muzzle is very short, and the eyes still larger than 

 those of the Galago. They are nocturnal animals, and feed on insects. 

 From the Moluccas. Lemur spectrum. Pall. 



ORDER III. 

 CARNARIA(l). 



This order consists of a considerable and varied assemblage of 

 unguiculated quadrupeds, possessing like Man and the Quadru- 

 mana the three sorts of teeth, but which have no opposable thumb 

 to their fore-feet. Their food is animal, and the more exclusively 

 so, as their grinders are the more trenchant. Such as have them 

 wholly or partly tuberculous, take more or less vegetable aliment, 



(1) Flesh eating animals. 



