DWARF LEMUR AND MOUSE LEMUR 
and most illogical beliefs and superstitions. Never stopping 
apparently to think of the little animal as he really is, a Malay 
will in good faith account to you for the commission of an 
unpremeditated crime by asserting that some enemy “had 
buried a particular part of a loris under his threshold, which 
had, unknown to him, compelled him to act to his disad- 
vantage.’ Even the little malmag is feared in Sumatra, where 
the appearance of a pair in a rice field is supposed to presage 
misfortune, or even death, to the farmer. 
A DwarF LEMUR (Microcebus Smithit). 
This represents the most diminutive of the lemurs, the species illustrated being no 
larger than a chipmunk. The mouse-lemurs (Chirogale and Opolemur) look much 
like them, but are more robust, and accumulate a deposit of fat about the basal part 
of the tail, by which they sustain the long fast enforced by their annual dormancy 
These minute lemurs belong to many species, but are few in numbers. 
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