10 TARSIUS 



Tarsius philippinensis Meyer. 



Tarsius philippinensis Meyer, Abhandl. Berich. Konigl. Zool. 

 Anthrop.-Ethnogr. Mus. Dresd., 1894, No. 1, p. 1 ; 1896, No. 

 1, p. 9 ; Thos., Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., XIV, 1896, p. 381 ; 

 Major, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1901, p. 138, fig. 35. 



PHILIPPINE TARSIER. 



Type locality. Island of Samar, Philippines. Type in Dresden 

 Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Samar; Leyte, (Whitehead) ; Mindanao, (Steere) ; 

 Philippine Archipelago. 



Genl. Char. Tarsi bare, tail bare except toward tip where it is 

 sparsely haired. 



Color. Face and top of head reddish brown ; upper parts reddish 

 brown, paler than face ; outer side of limbs reddish brown, lightest on 

 legs; throat and chest reddish; under parts yellowish gray; tail dark 

 brown. Ex type Dresden Museum. 



Measurements. Size about same as T. fuscus, type mounted. 

 Skull : occipito-nasal length, 32 ; Hensel, 14 ; zygomatic width, 28 ; inter- 

 temporal width, 22 ; palatal length, 14 ; breadth of orbits, 18 ; width of 

 braincase, 23 ; median length of nasals, 7 ; length of upper molar series, 

 13 ; length of mandible, 26 ; length of lower molar series, 13. Ex type 

 Dresden Museum. 



All specimens are not so red as the type, and some are dark grayish 

 on the back of the head, with the shoulders and upper back washed 

 with reddish ; hands dark brown ; feet pale rufous. An example from 

 Mindanao before me is quite pale, a wood brown with a reddish tinge, 

 the upper back only inclined to rusty. The Philippine Tarsier is more 

 or less a reddish animal, and in the prevalence of this color it differs 

 from the Tarsier of the other island groups in the eastern seas. 



The following account of the habits of this little animal by Mr. 

 John Whitehead, who obtained specimens in Samar, was published by 

 Mr. O. Thomas in his paper above referred to. 



Mr. Whitehead states : "This remarkable mammal is found in the 

 islands of Samar and Leyte where it is called by the Biscayas 'Magou.' 

 So far as I am aware it has not been obtained in Luzon or Mindoro to 

 northwest of Samar. It probably occurs in the great Island of Min- 

 danao, and perhaps in Bohol, to the south of Leyte. 



"In habits the 'Magou' is nocturnal, as the enormous owl-like eyes 

 would lead one to suppose ; it frequents abandoned clearings where the 

 new growth has sprung up to a height of some twenty feet, and in 

 Samar where the ground is also thickly covered with ferns and other 



