GAL AGO 59 



Type locality. Ugalla River, German East Africa. Type in Ber- 

 lin Museum. 



Color. Entire body, limbs, hands and feet, bright chestnut, the 

 fur being dark gray at base and tipped with bright chestnut. The tail 

 is wanting in the type. 



This very distinct species is about the size of G. lasiotis but in its 

 coloring is totally unlike any other known form. The tail is absent, 

 no part having been preserved to give an indication of its coloring. 

 Ex type Berlin Museum. 



Galago monteiri (Gray). 



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

 Galago monteiri Bartl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, p. 231, pi. 



XXVIII ; Sclat, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, p. 711, pi. XL; 



1871, p. 544; 1876, p. 413; Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1864, p. 346; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 860; 



Forbes, Handb. Primates, I, 1894, p. 139. 

 Galago (Otolemur) monteiri Pousarg., Nouv. Archiv Mus. Hist. 



Nat. Paris, VI, 1894, p. 139. 



MONTEIRI'S GALAGO. 



Type locality. Cuio Bay, south of Loando, Angola, West Africa. 

 Type not in British Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Middle coast, West Africa. 



Genl. Char. Size large; ears very large, naked on outer apical 

 edges ; hairs on face short ; feet and toes broad, discs rounded ; tail 

 very long. 



Color. General hue uniform pale gray over upper part of body, 

 outer side of limbs, and entire tail ; orbital ring black ; hands and feet 

 dark brownish gray ; ears black ; middle of breast and abdomen white ; 

 flanks grayish white. Some specimens are mouse gray on body and 

 tail. 



Measurements. Total length, 1118 ; tail, 408. Skull : occipito-nasal 

 length, 70; Hensel, 57; zygomatic width, about 40, (broken) ; inter- 

 temporal width, 19; palatal length, 28; breadth of braincase, 31; 

 median length of nasals, 20; length of upper molar series, 23 ; length of 

 mandible, 47; length of lower molar series, 20. 



This is one of the largest species of the genus, with a very long 

 bushy tail. While the color among individuals varies somewhat, the 

 dominant hue is always gray, ranging from a whitish to a mouse gray, 

 with occasionally reddish tints appearing on head and back. The type 



