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elegant form and gracefulness they also possess. They inhabit 

 the great forests of Senegal, Guiana, Caffraria, and Abyssinia. 

 They particularly frequent the gum woods ; so that the Europeans 

 :in Senegal call them the Gum Animals. 



The principal species of Galagos are the Galago of Senegal, 

 the Demidoff Galago, and the Eushy-tailed Galago, or Moholi 

 (Fig. 242). 



The Perodicticus was discovered in Guiana, in the seventeenth 



Fig. 240. — Propithecus {i-^ro}nthecas diadcma]. 



century, by Bosmann, a Dutch traveller. It differs from the true 

 Galagos in its tail, which is miich shorter ; in its ears, which are 

 also less developed ; and also in its only possessing the rudiment 

 of a finger on its anterior extremities, so that it appears to have 

 only four fingers, one of which, the thumb, is very widely sepa- 

 rated from the others. This animal is thick-set in figure, and 

 sluggish in movement ; in size, it scarcely equals the domestic 

 Cat (Fig. 243). 



