18 THE GHOSTS OF THE TROPICAL FOREST 
creature, whose uncouth native name has not been 
replaced, called the “ moholi.” It only differs from 
the lemurs in the shape of the ears, which in the 
moholi are either pricked up, like those of a bat, or 
folded down on its head at will. It has the same 
wonderful brown eyes, so large and round that they 
seem to occupy the greater part of the head ; the 
moholi is, in fact, “ all eyes.” As it stretches its 
slender arms out wide against the keeper’s chest, and 
turns its head to look at the visitors, it has the most 
winning expression of any quadruped we have ever 
seen. The coat, of a pinkish-grey above, turns into 
light saffron below, and the texture is less deep than 
the lemur’s fur. In touch it resembles floss silk, 
thickly piled. The “Slow Loris,” from Malacca, is a 
tailless lemur. In exchange it has received a fretful 
temper, which seems a permanent trait in this species. 
When wakened it growls, bites, and fights, until once 
more allowed to sleep in peace. This loris hardly 
falls short of the beauty of the lemurs. The fur is 
cream-coloured, with a cinnamon stripe running from 
the head down the back. Of the three species which 
we have described, the first seems to combine some of 
the characteristics of the monkey and the mole, the 
second of the squirrel and the bat, the last those of 
the monkey and the weasel tribe. The “ Slender 
Loris ” is a still greater puzzle. It has all the char- 
acteristic “ points ” of the lemurs, without the tail. 
In size it resembles a squirrel ; but its movements are 
so strange and deliberate, and so unlike those of any 
