GALAGO MOHOLI. 
specimens we possessed (nine) had four incisors in the upper jaw, while all the descriptions I had an 
opportunity of consulting gave to the Senegal species only two. Should G. Moholi eventually 
prove distinct from the latter, there is reason to believe that it occurs in Western as well as 
Southern Africa, at least there is a specimen from the Gambia, in the museum of the Zoologica 
Society of London, which, as far as size and external appearances are concerned, so closely 
resembles ours, that it is difficult to distinguish the one from the other: the upper jaw 
of the specimen in question, unfortunately, is slightly damaged, and only one incisor 
remains. But admitting that the Zoological Society’s specimen and ours are of one species, 
that species, in my opinion, is not the true Galago Senegalensis .-—a conclusion to which I 
have been led by the recent observations of my friend Mr. Waterhouse, while in Paris. He 
found in the museum of the Jardin des Plantes, two specimens ticketed Galago Senegalensis ; 
the one is certainly of the same species as that in the Zoological Society’s Museum, and 
measures to the base of the tail eight inches and a half; the other differs from it not only in 
size, but also in colouring. According to Mr. Waterhouse’s notes the latter is seven inches long ; 
the upper parts are greyish-yellow ; the sides yellow with a brownish tinge, and the under parts 
yellow ; the hands are a dirty yellow- white ; a line between the eyes and the muzzle yellowish ; 
the tail is pale rusty yellow, the fur of the belly, both at base and apex is of the same colour; 
the ears are apparently larger than those of the other specimen, and the fingers longer.” Now, 
as only one specimen appears to have existed in the museum at the time the G. Senegalensis was 
described by .Daubenton, and as his description nearly corresponds with that of the second 
individual examined by Mr. Waterhouse, — and whose colouring is given from his notes, 
I think we can have no hesitation in agreeing with him, that the above is the animal which 
Daubenton intends to describe when he says — “ length seven inches; the hairs tolerably long 
and woolly ; the lips and top of the nose is yellow-white ; this colour extends between the 
eyes and the forehead. The back is yellowish-brown; this colour becomes paler on the flanks, 
the arms, and the thighs, and is yellow-white on the fore-arms, the legs, the belly, and the 
chest.” If so, the second specimen mentioned in the Paris collection, is the true Galago Senega- 
lensis; and ours, as well as the specimen in the Zoological Society’s Museum, and the other 
which is in the Jardin des Plantes, is distinct; and consequently Galago Moholi, and is 
readily to be distinguished from G. Senegalensis, by having the fur of the belly of two 
colours — white towards the surface, and a dark slate colour towards the base. 
The first specimens we observed were upon trees close to the Limpopo river, in about lati- 
tude 25° south, and from that parallel we continued to observe others as far as we travelled. 
During their movements, they evince great activity ; they spring from branch to branch, and 
even from tree to tree, with extraordinary facility, and always seize with one of their fore feet the 
branch upon which they intend to rest. In their manners they manifest considerable resemblance 
to monkeys, particularly in their propensity to the practice of ridiculous grimaces, gesticulations, 
&c. According to the Natives, G. Moholi is a nocturnal animal, and is rarely to be seen during 
the day. The latter it spends in the nests which it forms for itself in the forks of branches, 
or in the cavities of decayed trees ; and in these nests the females also produce and rear their 
young, which are generally two at a birth. Its food consists principally of pulpy fruits, though 
there is reason to believe it also consumes insects, as the remains of the latter were discovered 
in the stomachs of several individuals we examined. 
