GAL AGO 55 



Galago (Otolemur) agisymbanus Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1864, pp. 627-645 ; Pousarg., Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 



VI, 1904, p. 139. 

 Galago (Otolemur) crassicaudatus Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1864, p. 645. 

 Galago agisymbanus Kirk, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1897, p. 952, 



(Island of Zanzibar). 

 Galago garnetti Forbes, Handb. of Primates, I, 1894, p. 40. 



(Part.). 



GREAT GALAGO. 



Rat of the Cocoanut Palm, (Portuguese) ; Gwea, Native name, 

 Suikive, (Zulu) ; Garila, (Inhambane). 



Type locality. Unknown. Type in Paris Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. East Africa; Ugogo and south to the Zambesi, 

 Portuguese S. E. Africa, (Thos. and Wroughton) ; Zululand, (Thos. 

 and Schwann) ; Mozambique, Quilimane, Luabo, (Kirk) ; Island of 

 Zanzibar. \ 



Genl. Char. Size large ; muzzle long, more so comparatively than 

 in the other species of the genus ; nose pad with a deep furrow ; no 

 membranes between fingers and toes, but all digits have terminal flat 

 discs; ears large, naked; tail long, bushy; neural spines bifurcate 

 laterally. 



Color. Nose, forehead, and band around eyes cream buff ; cheeks, 

 and beneath ears rusty brown; top of head and back russet, the 

 dorsal line darker ; outer side of arms and legs cinnamon ; under parts 

 and inner side of legs yellowish white or pale buff ; hands and feet dark 

 reddish brown ; tail russet, tip sometimes seal brown. 



Measurements. Total length, 700; tail, 375. Skull: occipito-nasal 

 length, 75; Hensel, 62; intertemporal width, 117; palatal length, 30; 

 breadth of braincase, 32 ; length of nasals, 23 ; length of upper molar 

 series, 22 ; length of mandible, 51.5 ; length of lower molar series, 19. 



G. agisymbanus appears to be the same as the present species, for 

 I can find no characters upon which they can be separated. Coquerel's 

 type, which is in the Paris Museum, is a young animal. The following 

 is a description taken from it. Head and entire upper parts, and outer 

 side of limbs dull russet, inclining to rusty on top of head and fore- 

 arms ; under parts pale greenish yellow ; hands and feet blackish brown ; 

 tail reddish, inclining to blackish brown on apical portion. The adult 

 is dull brown on the upper parts. 



