GALAGO 45 



Subfamily 2. Galaginae. 

 GENUS 1. GALAGO. THE GALAGOS. BTJSH BABYS. 



12- — 2 *-^ 1 — 1 n 3 — 3 ■» * 3 — 3 s 



GALAGO E. Geoff., Mag. Encyclop., 2me Annee, I, 1796, p. 49, pi. I. 



Type Galago senegalensis E. Geoffroy. 

 Chirosciurus Cuv. and Geoff., Mag. Encycloped., No. VI, 1795. 



(nomen nudum). 

 Macropus Fisch., Mem. Soc. Imp. Moscou, I, 1811, V, 1817, p. 



402, (nee Shaw, Marsupials). 

 Otolicnus IlHg., Prodr. Syst. Mamm. et Avium, 1811, p. 74. 

 Galagoides A. Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ., 2nd Ser., II, 1833, 



No. 1, p. 32. 

 Hemigalago Dahlb., Zool. Stud., I, Tredje Haftet, 1857, pp. 224, 



225, 230, Tab. X. 

 Otolemur Coquerel, Rev. Mag. Zool., 2nd Ser., XI, 1859, pp. 458, 



460, pis. XVII, XVIII. 

 Callotus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, p. 145. 

 Otogale Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, p. 139, figs, in text. 

 Euoticus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, pp. 140, 141, I, fig. in 



text, pi. XIX. 

 Sciurocheirus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 857, fig. 5. 



Fur thick, woolly; eyes large, approximate; ears large, hinder 

 edge contractile at will of the animal ; fingers and toes long and slender, 

 with terminal discs ; tail long, thick, bushy. Skull : braincase round, 

 high, broad; muzzle short; squamosal region inflated; upper incisors 

 small subequal, with posterior cusp on cingulum; diastema posterior 

 to canine; first upper premolar with one main cusp and two supple- 

 mentary ones on each side ; middle premolar with three cusps ; last 

 molar, in some forms, is tricuspidate, in others quadricuspidate ; the 

 last internal cusp wanting. Tarsus long, calcaneum over one third the 

 length of tibia ; tail longer than the body. 



The species of this genus are all African, and are remarkable for 

 their large ears, and elongated tarsi, the latter much exceeding in 

 length the arms. They have four incisors in both the upper and lower 



