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NATURAL HISTORY. 
tlie Lemurs. Being nocturnal in its habits, the eyes, which are large, and with great wide dark pupils 
and a brown-red iris, have a glassy, glimmering appearance in daylight, but look like balls of lire at 
night. The ears are a remarkable feature : about a third shorter than the head, they stand out 
like great, flattish, elliptica 1-mouthcd trumpets, ever changing position and shape, and catching all 
sounds, and they are nearly bare within and slightly hairy outside. This animal has fur of a uniformly 
dark brown, and this colour mainly distinguishes it from 
MONTE I It O’S GALAGO.* 
This short description of the Thick-tailed Galago in a great many respects answers to another,, 
which merits the title of 44 Grand,” if dimensions a grade larger deserve it. One was obtained at Cuis 
Bay, south of Loanda, and was conveyed to England in the living state, being supposed to be only a pale 
variety of the last-mentioned species. The only visible difference from the latter seems to be that of 
PALM OF HAND OF GARNETT’S GALAGO. 
(Original after Murie.) 
SOLE OF FOOT, WITH LONG HEEL, OF GARNETT’S GALAGO. 
( Original after Murie.) 
colour, even this slightly varying. It is of a light chinchilla-grey all over, save the tail and the throat, 
which are nearly white. The nose is black and bare, and the feet are deep brown. The entire length 
of the animal is twenty-eight inches, whereof the tail is sixteen. The ears are a couple of inches long, 
and blackish. Mr. Bartlett remarks that when these are thrown forwards they give the head a re- 
semblance to that of the Aye-Aye ; but when they are folded back and down the physiognomy 
approaches that of the Douroucouli. Dr. Kirk (who accompanied the lamented Dr. Livingstone) says : 
u While the G. maholi is peculiar to the interior, where its geographical range seems to be great, the 
other, or Great-tailed Galago (G. Monteiri ), is confined to the maritime region — so far as I know, 
never penetrating beyond the band of wood known generally as the mangrove forests. By the Por- 
tuguese it is named 4 Bat of the Cocoa-nut Palm/ that being its favourite haunt by day, nestling 
among the fronds ; but if it be disturbed, performing feats of agility, and darting from one palm to 
another. It will spring with great rapidity, adhering to any object as if it were a lump of wet clay. 
4 4 It has one failing — otherwise its capture were no easy task. Should a pot of palm-wine be left 
on the tree, the creature drinks to excess, comes down, and rushes about intoxicated. In captivity 
they are wild ; during the day remaining either rolled up in a ball, or perched half asleep, with ears 
stowed away like a Beetle’s wing under its hard and ornamented case (elytra). I had half a dozen 
Squirrels with one in the same cage; these were good friends, the latter creeping under the ‘Go-lgoV 
soft fur and falling asleep. On introducing a few specimens of Shrew ( Macroscelides tetradactylus ), 
the 4 Golgo ’ seized one and bit off its tail, which, however, it did not eat. The food it took was 
biscuit, rice, orange, banana, guava, and a little cooked meat. Stupid during the day, it became active 
at night, or just after darkness set in. 
* Galago Monteiri (Bartlett). 
