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raised from the boards. It spent most of the day asleep, rolled up into 

 a furry ball with its head buried between its thighs. If disturbed when 

 actively climbing about, it had a curious way of folding its hands over 

 its eyes and from hence earned the name of 'shame face' which it 

 shares with the Tarsius spectrum, (T. philippinensis). It had two 

 notes, a low complaining grunt, and a sharp squeal. During its con- 

 finement it took little food, turning up its nose at lemons, but occasion- 

 ally eating a little banana or egg. We had no insects or small mammals 

 to offer it. In drinking, it lapped up the water like a dog. After five 

 days of semi-starvation its strength seemed almost unimpaired, and 

 it showed remarkable tenacity of life." 



The above was taken from the Zoologischer Anzeiger, ostensibly by 

 Dr. Nachtrieb, but he in a letter to Dr. Lyon disclaimed the authorship 

 and stated that the article was probably by Mr. Dean Worcester. 

 Having no genus the name could not stand, but the specific name, 

 menagensis, was afterwards coupled with Nycticebus by *Troues- 

 sart, fStone and Rehn, and JLydekker (1. c.) and so it came properly 

 into the species of that genus. 



Nycticebus pygm^tjs Bonhote. 



Nycticebus pygmaus Bonhote, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1907, p. 4, 

 pi. II, figs. 1, 2. 



PIGMY SLOW LORIS. 



Type locality. Nha Trang, Annam. Type in British Museum. 



Genl. Char. Size small ; tail a mere knob ; hair silky ; second upper 

 molar largest; lower third molar largest. 



Color. Orbital rings dark brown ; stripe from forehead between 

 eyes to nose, yellowish white; top of head, back of neck and dorsal 

 region cinnamon ; rest of upper parts, flanks and outer side of limbs, 

 pale cinnamon; under parts gray washed with cinnamon. Ex type 

 British Museum, Juv. 



Measurements. Length of head and body, (skin), about 185; 

 foot, 40. Skull: occipito-nasal length, 46; Hensel, 34; zygomatic 

 width, 25; intertemporal width, 18; palatal length, 15; breadth of 

 braincase, 25; median length of nasals, 11; length of upper molar 



♦Cat. Mamm. I, p. 63, 1898. 



tL. C. p. 138. 



fL. C. p. 345, Zool. Rec. 1893, p. 25. 











