ON LEMURS AT MOROGORO, G.E.A. 
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ON LEMURS AT MOROGORO, G.E.A. 
By Arthur Loveridge 
June 9. — Returning along the road at night, I heard a cry 
with which I am familiar. It is like the quacking of a duck, 
but a little more raucous ; so that, hitherto, I had supposed it 
was made by a hornbill. Being a moonlight night, I stalked 
the creature, and, coming beneath the tree in which it was, 
found it to be a squirrel. The creature was very bold, and 
continued its cry without attempting to escape ; it made 
another low throaty sound, not unlike the growling of a cat. 
October 8. — Went in search of the lemurs that cry in the 
trees around here at nights, and shot four. Three were 
measured as follows : 
Male. — Head and body, 12 ins. ; tail, 14 ins. ; hind foot, 
3 ins. ; ear, 1 J ins. This specimen had its stomach, and around 
the testes, full of worms — the latter may have escaped from 
bullet-holes that perforated the intestines. 
Male. — Head and body, 11 ins. ; tail, 15 ins. ; hind foot, 
3J ins. ; ear, If ins. 
Female. — Head and body, 12 ins. ; tail, 14| ins. ; hind foot, 
3 ins. ; ear, 2 ins. This specimen had a well-developed young 
one in the uterus, with its head directed towards the Fallopian 
tubes. 
October 9. — The natives told me that these lemurs are to 
be captured by putting jpombe (native beer) in coco-nuts in 
trees which they frequent. The creature drinks until intoxi- 
cated, and if sought out early the following morning falls an 
easy prey, as its judgment for making the prodigious jumps, 
by which it would in ordinary circumstances escape, fails. 
Acting on this advice, I gave a boy half a rupee to get a bottle. 
He told me next morning that he found a lemur in the very 
top of the tree, but, as he was climbing up, it escaped to the 
next tree, where he threw stones at it, but it again got away. 
