THE GENUS STENOFS. 
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THE SLENDER LORIS* 
Comes from Ceylon. Malabar, and the Coromandel Coast, and the Malays in Ceylon call it 
“ Seyvoingoo,” the Cinghalese, “ Onaha ppoolowa.” The meagre figure and long lank limbs of this 
^creature give it a droll, half-starved look, its skin-tight robes and silent melancholy lending 
.oddity, but not gracefulness, to its charms. If seen during the day, and made to walk on a flat surface, 
what between its blinking, peeping eyes and awkward gait, a feeling of pity devoid of admiration is 
.apt to arise. But watched at night, when it is clambering among branches, its character changes to 
.that of a more lithe and nimbler animal, whose great staring eyes and gliding progress most surely 
THE SLENDER LORIS, SHOWING ITS ATTITUDES AND HABITS. {In pqni after hiuerson Tennent .) 
indicate a nature less apathetic than a more hasty conclusion would warrant. Its uncommonly long 
body, devoid of a tail, is rendered more striking on account of limb-length, and the colour is usually 
•of an unequal sooty-grey, the back mingled with much rusty-tinted or tawny hairs. The under parts 
are whitish, and there is a light nose-streak. The space round the eyes, which are close together, is 
dusky, and on the head is a dark spot, pointing to the inner eyelid. As in other of the Lemuroid 
.•groups, there is no absolute constancy in depth of tint and markings, lighter and darker varieties 
being met with. The rounded cars are conspicuous, though not long and mobile as in the Galagos, 
and the face has a kind of Dog-like expression. The hair is very singular when the animal is alive ; 
it resembles soft packed wool, somewhat curled and arranged in little tufts, as the hair on the scalp 
of the negro, but very delicate ; it soon loses this appearance after death if much handled, as is 
always the case in removing the skin. 
The Slender Loris is very common in the lower country of the south and east of Ceylon. Dr. 
Templeton, who had several of them, observes “ that after a few months’ confinement they soon begin to 
* Loris , or Stenops gracilis . 
