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GALAGO 



This race is much darker than G. elegantulus and has none of 

 the cinnamon color of that species; the mummy brown on the dorsal 

 line, which is quite indistinct, being the only change from the general 

 uniform hair brown color of the upper parts of the body. There are 

 only two examples in the British Museum Collection, the second one 

 being lighter on back and rump, this apparently on account of the old 

 hair not having been yet shed, as the head and upper part of the back 

 are dark like the type. 



Bates records (1. c.) that the Ns<z uses neither hollow trees nor 

 old squirrel's nests for a hiding place in the daytime. They are found 

 sleeping in bunches of as many as a half dozen, clinging with their 

 arms around each other's bodies and around the branch of a tree. >A 

 shrill squeaking or chirping often heard at night among the tree tops of 

 the forest, is referred by the natives to the Nsce. They say that this 

 noise is heard oftener near morning and that then the father is calling 

 together the rest of the company, to gather them into a huddle for the 

 daytime. 



Galago elegantulus apicalis (Du Chaillu). 



Otolicnus apicalis Du Chaillu, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1860, 

 p. 361; Id. Equat. Africa, Append. 1861, p. 471; Matschie, 

 Mitt. Geog. Ges. Nat. Mus. Liibeck, 1894, p. 131. 

 du chaillu' s galago. Aboli, native name. 



Type locality. Equatorial Africa. "Mountains of the interior 

 near the equator." No particular locality given. Type in British 

 Museum. 



Genl. Char. Skull of type has only the frontal bone, orbits and 

 rostrum remaining; but these portions show considerable differences 

 from the skull of G elegantulus with which species this one has 

 been united by some writers. These differences may be expressed as 

 follows. The width between the orbits is much greater ; the nasals are 

 narrower, and the rostrum anteriorly much more slender and narrower : 

 the frontal from the parietal suture to nasals is shorter ; the posterior 

 end of nasals is rounded instead of pointed ; first upper molar is 

 smaller and the third larger ; the bony palate from the center of the 

 arch is longer, and the width throughout its length much less, causing 

 the teeth to lie more on a straight line and not to flare outward, as is 

 the case with the tooth rows of G. elegantulus ; the bony ring of the 

 orbits is much wider. 



Color. Head, neck, and upper parts bright russet ; dorsal streak 

 burnt umber ; outer side of arms mummy brown ; outer side of legs 



