MONTEIRO'S GALAGO. 
241 
“ The rapidity and length of its leaps, which were absolutely noiseless, must give great facilities to 
its capturing live prey. I never knew it give a loud call, but it would often make a low chattering 
noise. It has been observed at the Luabo mouth of the Zambesi, at Quilimane, and at Mozambique. 
When I had my live specimen at Zanzibar, the natives there did not seem to recognise it; nevertheless, 
it may be abundant on the mainland. ” 
Mr. Monteiro tells us that the Loanda specimens have not the character of being such a drunken 
lot of creatures, though they are arrant thieves, but otherwise he corroborates Dr. Kirk’s observations. 
He mentions that they come in bands, and rob the fruit-trees of the villages. Their flesh is looked 
upon as good eating, and their skins are eagerly sought for, the fur being used to staunch wounds. 
THK POTTO IN ITS SLEEP I XO AND WAKING ATTITUDES. (Modified from Alph. MilnC-EdWcds ) 
In allusion to the Galago’s inebriety, Dr. Gray relates that a friend of his gave a half-grown Scotch 
Terrier to a distiller, who soon returned it with the character of “habit and repute.” The 
animal could not by any correction be prevented from drinking the spirit as it came from the still, or 
any spirits it could get, and it would stagger and reel about, verifying the term, “ a drunken dog,” 
so often applied to divine man. 
THE AFRICAN SLOW LEMURS. 
The rest of the African Lemuroids have not the habits, appearance, and anatomy of the 
Galagos, and are a very sad, weird, slow-going set, totally different from the active, careless kinds 
already noticed. A world of care seems to hang around their deliberate movements ; they are images 
of Sleepy Hollow ; they never are seen to spring and rush about, but ordinarily conduct themselves 
with great gravity and decorum. Slow they are, and hence their name the Slow Loris, and their 
body and limbs are not made for rapid locomotion. The limbs are nearly equal in length, their head 
is globular, and the eyes are uneven. The short ears and short fur are all of a piece, and so is the 
short tail (for this is most common), and the short second or index (counting the thumb as one) 
