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Natur., 1856, fasc. I, p. 230, tab. X, figs. 35, 35a; Gray, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 858; F. Major, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1901, p. 139, figs. 38, 39. 



Galago (Hemigalago) demidoM Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1864, p. 648. 



Galago pusillus Peters, Monatsb., Konigl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 

 Berlin, 1876, p. 473. 

 demidoff's galago. Ojam, native name. 



Type locality. Senegal. 



Geogr. Distr. Gold Coast to Great Basin of the Congo, West and 

 Central Africa ; Mombuttu, Equatorial Africa, (Thomas) ; Dongila, 

 Gaboon, (Peters). 



Genl. Char. Second upper premolar with two small cusps on heel ; 

 upper molars with small cusp on oblique ridge ; tail longer than head 

 and body. 



Color. Head and upper parts Prout's brown, darkest on center of 

 back and rump, but sometimes these parts are cinnamon rufous ; buff 

 streak between eyes and nose ; upper lip black ; outer side of arms and 

 legs like back with the outer edge of legs ochraceous buff ; entire under 

 parts buff, darkest on the breast ; tail Prout's brown, hairs tipped with 

 golden yellow. 



Measurements. Total length, 323; tail, 180; (skin). Skull: occi- 

 pito-nasal length, 31; Hensel, 25; zygomatic width, 23; intertemporal 

 width, 15; palatal length, 12; width of braincase, 19; length of upper 

 molar series, 11; length of mandible, 20; length of lower molar 

 series, 11. 



Peters gave a figure of the head, in his text, and a plate by Wolf 

 of a Galago in his paper published in 1863 (1. c.) under the name of 

 Galago demidoffi, but in 1876, (1. c.) decided his example was not 

 that species, and named it Otolicnus pusillus. The plate exhibits an 

 animal very like H. demidoffi, with some slight differences, but these 

 may possibly arise from faulty coloring. The only differences stated 

 by Peters in the later paper to separate his example from H. demi- 

 doffi are its shorter ears and smaller size. No dimensions are in this 

 paper, but they are given in the earlier one. Measurements in the 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society, (1. c.) are as follows: "total 

 length, 2" 2"', tail 3" 1"', head 1" 1'", arms 1" 5"', legs 2" 6"', thigh 8, 

 tibia 10, foot and tarsus 1"." 



