56 GAL AGO 



Geoffrey's type is in the Paris Museum, but is so faded that but 

 little of the original color remains. The tail has lost most of the hair 

 on the apical half, and the example is in such a condition that a descrip- 

 tion of it would only serve to mislead. Kirk states (1. c.) that at 

 Luabo and Quilimane, this species frequents the Mangrove forests and 

 wooded country outside. In captivity it eats flesh, vegetables, fruits 

 and insects; in its native state it is fond of palm wine, robbing the 

 pots used by the natives to collect it. This often leads to its capture 

 when it drinks to excess. During the day it remains quiet in some 

 shaded tree top. At night it is very active, leaping from frond to 

 frond, or crossing from one cocoanut palm to another. Coquerel 

 (1. c.) says that this species, (under the name of Otolemur agisym- 

 banus), was brought to him from the interior of the island, while he 

 was staying in Zanzibar, and is common in the forests which cover the 

 northern part. He kept one alive for fifteen days, and it was very 

 gentle. It slept during the day covered by its long tail, but at night it 

 was active and exhibited an extreme petulence. It was fed on fruit 

 but would eat anything, and devoured eagerly meat both raw and 

 cooked. 



Galago zuluensis Elliot. 



Galago zuluensis Elliot, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., XX, Ser. 7, 1907, 

 p. 186. 



ZULU GALAGO. 



Type locality. Zululand. Type in British Museum. 



Genl. Char. Similar to G. hindsi, but browner, and with much 

 larger ears ; tail, darker and shorter. Skull : one-third larger ; teeth 

 larger. The first and second upper molars have four cusps, two outer 

 and two inner ; the last molar only three, two outer and one inner ; the 

 lower molars have four cusps, two outer and two inner. 



Color. Head and upper parts broccoli brown and gray mixed, 

 darkest on the head ; outer side of limbs wood brown ; dorsal line 

 washed with mars brown ; under parts and inner side of limbs yellowish 

 white ; hands and feet grayish brown ; tail above pale mars brown, 

 beneath paler. Ex type British Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, about 570 ; tail, 320. Skull : occip- 

 ito-nasal length, 70 ; Hensel, 57 ; zygomatic width, 46 ; intertemporal 

 width, 19 ; palatal length, 28 ; breadth of braincase, 33 ; median length 

 of nasals, 19; length of upper molar series, 22; length of mandible. 

 40 ; length of lower molar series, 23. Ex type in British Museum. 



