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could not be found in the British Museum. It probably never was 

 in the collection. The identification of this animal as a new species 

 should undoubtedly be placed to the credit of the late Mr. A. D. Bart- 

 lett, Superintendent of the London Zoological Society's Gardens, but 

 his MS. having been shown to Dr. Gray, it was included by him in his 

 paper on the species of Lemuroids under Mr. Bartlett's MS. name in 

 an earlier part of the Society's proceedings, and thus became G. mon- 

 teiri Gray, manuscript names having no standing. Mr. Bartlett had 

 the type alive, and states it was "very gentle and slept much during 

 the day, and fed on fruit, bread, milk and other sweet things, par- 

 ticularly bananas. It had the power of turning its ears back and 

 folding them up when at rest. When moving about or in search of 

 food they, (the ears) spread out and stand upward and forward, 

 reminding one of the Aye- Aye; but when folded back and down, the 

 animal's face bears a strong resemblance to the Douroucouli. The 

 pupils of the eyes are oval and vertical." 



Galago kirki (Gray). 



Otogale crassicaudata var. kirki Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1864, p. 456. 

 Galago crassicaudatus Sclat., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, p. 711 ; 



Pousarg., Nouv. Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, VI, 1894, 



p. 138. 

 Otogale kirki Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1894, p. 137 ; 1896, 



p. 790. 



KIRK'S GALAGO. 



Type locality. Quilimane, Mozambique, East Africa. Type in 

 British Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Blantyre, Shiri Highlands, Nyassaland ; and 

 Mozambique to Tete on the Zambesi, East Africa. 



Genl. Char. Size large, tail bushy, color pale. 



Color. General hue pale ashy gray and russet, base of hairs 

 black; cheeks, inner side of limbs and under part of body grayish 

 white ; face, crown, nape, middle of back, shoulders, and outer side of 

 arms russet ; outer side of legs yellowish gray ; hands, feet, and tail, 

 dark broccoli brown. Ex type in British Museum. 



Measurements. Skull much broken ; occipito-nasal length, 68 ; 

 zygomatic width, 47 ; intertemporal width, 18 ; width of orbits, 19 ; 

 median length of nasals, 20; length of upper molar series, 21 ; length 

 of mandible, 45 ; length of lower molar series, 23. Ex type British 

 Museum. 



