122 LEPIDOLEMUR 



Lepidolemur ruficaudatus Grandidier. 



Lepilemur ( !) ruficaudatus Grandid., Rev. Mag. Zool., 1867, p. 



256; Mivart, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, p. 971 ; Gray, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, pp. 851, 855; Forbes, Primates, I, 



1894, p. 87. 

 Lepilemur ( !) pallidicauda Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, 



p. 850. 



RED-TAILED SPORTIVE LEMUR. 



Type locality. Morondava, Madagascar. 



Geogr. Distr. South western Madagascar from Marinda to Masi- 

 kora. Type in Paris Museum. 



Genl. Char. Smaller than L. mustelinus; nasal region short; 

 ears ovate, haired; tail long; orbits small. Skull massive, broad for 

 its length, muzzle short. 



Color. Head dark grayish brown ; upper parts of body pale red- 

 dish gray ; shoulders and outer side of arms reddish brown ; outer 

 side of hind limbs, pale gray washed with brown on outer edge of 

 thigh above the knee ; chin and breast gray ; rest of under parts, and 

 inner side of limbs whitish or yellowish white ; hands reddish brown, 

 feet paler brown, toes whitish; tail reddish brown darker than the 

 rump ; apical part of ears naked, black, remainder hairy like head ; dor- 

 sal line indistinctly reddish. 



Measurements. Total length about 560 ; tail, 280. Skull : occip- 

 ito-nasal length, 55 ; Hensel, 42 ; zygomatic width, 38 ; intertemporal 

 width, 19; median length of nasals, 14; length of upper molar series, 

 21 ; length of mandible, 41 ; length of lower molar series, 21. 



There are several mounted specimens of this form in the Paris 

 Museum, all of which, according to the regrettable custom prevailing 

 in that Institution are marked as "types." Some are greatly faded and 

 show but little of the original coloring, and which one is the real type 

 it is impossible to say. The one described was procured by Grandidier 

 at Morondava, Madagascar, in 1869, and is of course not the true 

 type, but a co-type. The probably real type taken at the same place in 

 1867 is so faded that but a faint idea of its original coloring can be 

 obtained. The chief difference between this form and L. mustelinus 

 is in the shape and proportion of the skull. Three or four skins, how- 

 ever, in the collection in the drawers, still retain the original coloring. 



Lepilemur ( !) pallidicauda Gray, is the same as L. ruficaudatus. 

 Why Gray should have described it as distinct is difficult to imagine for 

 he states, (1. c.) that, "this animal was sent to us by Mr. Frank of Am- 

 sterdam as Lepilemur ( !) ruficaudatus Grandidier," and then he 



