66 GALAGO 



Galago (Otolicnus) gabonensis Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1864, pp. 339, 647. 

 Galago (Otolicnus) alleni var. gabonensis Pousarg., Nouv. Archiv. 



Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, VI, 1894, p. 152. 

 Otolicnus gabonensis Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 860. 



GABOON GALAGO. 



Type locality. Gaboon, West Africa. Type in British Museum. 



Geogr. Distr. Gaboon, West Africa. Limits of range unknown. 



Genl. Char. Ears smaller than those of G. alleni ; last upper 

 molar tricuspidate ; incisors not in front of canines. Palate narrower, 

 and bullae larger than in G. alleni. 



Color. Stripe from forehead on to nose, base of ears, cheeks, and 

 sides of neck light gray ; hind neck, and upper parts russet ; arms, and 

 upper parts of thighs cinnamon, in some examples these parts are 

 cinnamon rufous ; legs from knees to ankles, gray ; hands and feet dark 

 grayish brown ; under parts, and inner sides of limbs yellowish white ; 

 base of tail iron gray, remainder drab gray. Ex type British Museum. 



Some specimens have all the upper parts cinnamon rufous, and 

 the tail drab gray; ears brownish black. 



Measurements. Total length, 510; tail, 275; foot, 70; ear, 31, 

 (Collector). Skull: occipito-nasal length, 51; Hensel, 39; intertem- 

 poral width, 17; palatal length, 18; median length of nasals, 20; 

 breadth of braincase, 24; length of upper molar series, 16; length of 

 mandible, 31 ; length of lower molar series, 15. 



Galago alleni batesi Elliot. 



Galago alleni batesi Elliot, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., XX, 7th Ser., 

 1907, p. 187. 



BATE'S GALAGO. 



Type locality. Kemo River, Gaboon, West Africa. Type in Brit- 

 ish museum. 



Gen. Char. Similar to G. a. gabonensis, but much darker above, 

 and has a black tail, and light gray feet ; and from G. alleni it differs in 

 black tail, and gray legs below knees, and feet. 



Color. Forehead, base of ears, cheek, stripe between eyes and 

 nose light gray ; top of head and hind neck, and upper parts dark 

 mummy brown ; outer side of arms dark tawny ; a patch of tawny on 

 thigh, the upper portions darker than the lower, rest of legs brownish 

 gray, becoming clear gray on feet ; throat, and front of neck yellowish ; 

 rest of lower parts whitish ; hands grayish mummy brown ; tail black 



