148 LEMUR 



Bats, Brit. Mus., 1870, p. 73 ; Bartl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1879, p. 68. 

 Prosimia mongos (nee Linn.), Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, 



p. 137; Id. Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating Bats, Brit. 



Mus., 1870, p. 74. 

 Prosimia Havifrons Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, p. 596, pi. 



XXXI; Id. Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating Bats, 



Brit. Mus., 1870, Append, p. 132, $. 

 Lemur Havifrons Sclat., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, p. 232, §. 



FULVOUS LEMUR. 



Type locality. Madagascar. 



Geogr. Distr. Northern part of the Island of Madagascar. 



Genl. Char. Distinguished from L. mongos Linn., by its black 

 nose. 



Color. Male. Top of head, middle of forehead, face and nose 

 black ; ears scantily haired, black fringed with white ; spot on each side 

 of forehead iron gray ; cheeks iron gray varying to whitish in different 

 individuals, this hue extending beneath the ears; upper part of body 

 rufous or reddish gray, becoming in some specimens darker and more 

 reddish on the rump ; outer side of limbs reddish gray like back ; hands 

 and feet reddish brown ; under parts of body, and inner side of limbs 

 pale yellow ; tail yellowish brown, beneath at base pale orange yellow. 



Lemur mongos collaris 67. 10. 5. 20. There is a specimen in the 

 British Museum purchased from the Zoological Society of London and 

 named Lemur mongos collaris which is peculiar and should be noticed. 



Type locality. Madagascar. 



Color. Nose gray in the middle, black at top and at tip ; a partial 

 orbital ring and forehead black, a rather indistinct line across top of 

 head, space beneath ears on neck, cheeks and sides of throat rufous ; a 

 yellowish band from back of shoulders across back at base of neck : 

 shoulders, arms, grizzled gray and black; upper parts of body and 

 thighs speckled grayish brown with a yellow tinge; legs below knees 

 sooty ; hands and feet blackish ; chin and middle of throat white ; a 

 blackish band across upper part of breast; line down center of inner 

 side of arms gray ; under parts of body and inner side of legs sooty ; tail 

 sooty speckled with whitish, becoming black towards tip. 



Measurements. Total length, 780; tail, 440; foot, 80. Skull in 

 the specimen. 



This example obtained from the Zoological Society is apparently 

 without any history beyond the fact of its purchase. It does not agree 

 exactly with any known species. Its nose is neither black nor white. 



