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being slender and long, half the thickness of the other fingers, and resembling a piece of bent wire. 
Excepting the head and this finger, he closely resembles a Lemur. Now, as he attacked every night 
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the woodwork of his cage, which I was gradually lining with tin, I bethought myself of tying seme 
sticks over the woodwork, so that he might gnaw these instead. I had previously put in some large 
branches for him to climb upon ; but the others were straight sticks to come over the woodwork of his 
cage, which alone he attacked. It so happened that the thick sticks I now put into his cage were bored 
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