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ORDER QUADRUMANA.— GENUS TARSIERS. 
of a uniform fawn-grey colour; while the under part of the lower jaw, the 
throat, lower part of the neck, the chest, the inner side of the arms, the 
belly, and external aspect ofthehinder limbs, are white. The face and hands 
are flesh colour, with a white longitudinal spot between the eyes. There 
is no very manifest difference between the sexes. 
The habits of this animal are very similar to those previously detailed. 
In confinement, he passes the entire day hid in a comfortable nest, rolled 
up into a ball, and sound asleep ; but with the twilight he leaves his retreat, 
and is active througliont the night. It is now that he eats and amuses 
himself ; exceedingly lively and active, he runs round his cage as if flying, 
and will leap six feet vertically. He lives upon fruit, bread, and biscuits. 
DOUBTFCI, SPECIES. 
1. The Little Maucaitco (Penn. Qtiadr. I. 233), figured in Brown,* 
Illustr. pi. 44, is either the young of the Senegal Galago, or the type 
of a new species. It differs from the Madagascar Galago in having the 
ears nearly as long as the head, and the tail reddish. 
2. Galago Demidofpii (G. Fisch. in Act. Soc. Mosc. I. p. 24, fig. 
1) is said to have its fur reddish-brown ; the muzzle blackish, and the ears 
half as long as the head ; the tail is longer than the body, and ends in a 
tuft. This animal is thought to have come from Senegal. M. Geoffrey 
considers it to be the young of some other species. 
index and middle fingers of the hinder hands, which are hooked. The tail is 
clothed with hair only at its base and tip. The fur, which lies close, is 
of a dark reddish-brown colour. 
Of the habits of this animal but few particulars have been stated. It 
lives upon trees, and pursues Insects. The name is applied to it by 
the natives of the island of Macassar, where it abounds. 
IMAGINABV SPECIES. 
1. T. Bascanus of Dr Horsfield, figured in his work on Java, is the 
young of the Podje Tarsier according to Teraminck. 
2. T. Daubexto.mi ; and, 
3. T. ruscoMANUs of G. Fischer (.Anat. Mak.), are identical with T. 
Spectrum. 
DOUBTFUL GENUS.— CHIROGALEUS. 
Travellers should search for some animals, drawn by Commercoii 
[the originals are deposited in the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle], 
and engraved by Geoffroy (Ann. Mus. XIX. pi. 10) under the 
name of Cheirogaleus. These figures seem to indicate a new genus 
or sub-genus of Quadrumanous animals. 
GENUS V. TARSIUS.— TARSIERS. 
Syn. Les Tarsieus. — Cuv. Reg. Anim. I. 109. 
T.ahsics — Storr,^ Prodr. — GeolF. Ann. Jins. XIX. 167 — IlHg. Prodr. 
74. — Desm. Mam. 
Didelphis (in part) — Linn. Gmel. I. 109. 
GENERIC CHARACTERS. 
The Dental Formula 
=34. 
The Head round. The Muzzle short and pointed. The Eyes very 
large and approximated. The Ears large, naked, and membraneous. 
^[ 2+C+(3 F+.3)M_18 _„ 
ll-l”C+(3 F-1-3)M 16 
The Tarsus three times the length of the metatarsus. 
The Tail very long, tufted at the end. 
The Mamm.e two, ventral. Habits nocturnal. 
The Index and Middle Fingebs of the hinder hands armed each with 
a pointed nail. 
Inhabit the East Indian Archipelago. 
The Tarsiers have the elongated tarsi of the Galagoes, and re- 
semble them in most of the details of their structure ; but the in- 
terval between their true molars and incisors is occupied by several 
smaller teeth, and the first or middle incisors of the upper jaw are 
elongated and resemble the canines. Their muzzle is very short, 
and their eyes are still larger than any of the preceding. 
These animals are of nocturnal habits, and live on Insects. They 
come to us from the Moluccas [and otlier islands of the East Indian 
Archipekgo]. 
1. TAllSmS SPECTRUM PODJE TARSIER. 
Sy7i. Lemur Spectrujl — P all.^ Glir. p. 275. 
Tarsius Spectrum — Geoff. Ann. Mus. XIX. — Desm. Mam. 
Macrotabscs Indicus. — Lacep. 
UinELPHis MACROTARsus. — Linn. Gmel. I. 109. 
Tarsier Maucauco — P enn. Quadr. I. 231. 
Icon. Le Tarsier, — Buff. Hist. Nat. XIII. pi. 9 Copied in Schreb. Saiigth. 
pi. 15.5. 
Tarsius ruscus s. fuscomanus. — G. Fisch. Anat. Mak. pi. .3, 4. 
Tarsius Daubentonii Audeb. Sing. 
Tarsius Bancanus (young).— .Hoisf. Jav. 
The Podje, the only well-ascertained species of this genus, is of the size 
of a Rat, measuring about six inches from the muzzle to the origin of 
the tail ; this appendage is considerably longer. The head is round, the 
ears are trauspareut and naked, and half the length of the head. The 
snout is short and pointed, the eyes are remarkably large, and the posterior 
extremities as long as the body and head taken together; the extremities 
almost naked, the nails short and flat, with the exception of those on the 
M. Geoffroy has the fullest conviction that these animals will turn out 
to belong to a distinct genus. The accurate Comiiierfon had carefully 
sketched them of their natural size ; and this after liaving prepared a liis- 
tory of the Lemurs, and examined all their minute arid distinguishing 
characteristics. These animals, like the Felinm, have the head round, 
the nose and muzzle short, the li(>s armed with moustaches, the eyes large, 
prominent, and approximated, and the ears short and oval. Their tail is 
long, very bushy, regularly cylindrical, and generally curling forward, some- 
times upon itself, and sometimes round the animal's body. AH these traits 
correspond with those belonging to the Cat family. But to these we liave 
to add, that the phalanges of the extremities, widely separated, and 
formed for grasping, like tliose of the Lemurs and the Chirogalei, have 
the four thumbs completely opposable, and apt for all their peculiar move- 
ments. Tliey are, moreover, supplied with broad nails, whicli are short 
and flat. The nails, again, on all tire other plialanges are straiglit, slender, 
acute, surpassing considerably the flesliy extremity. These nails, liow. 
ever, are very different from the claws of Bears, Cats, &c , and in tlieir 
form and position much resemble the awl-shaped nail which in the Le- 
murs is attached to tire index finger of the hinder hand. 
The respective dimensions of the three species wliich tire celebrated 
traveller has sketched, supply the specific names wtiieh M. Geoffroy lias 
provisionally supplied to them. Tliey are 
1. Chirogaleus biajor, — Geoff., whose length is about twelve inches. 
It is of a dark brown colour, particularly about the chanfrin. 
2. Chirogaleus medius — Geoff. Length nine inches. The colour 
is not so deep ; a black circle surrounds the eyes, and the chanfrin is 
much lighter. 
3. Chirogaleus .minor — Geoff. Little more than seven inches long. 
The colour generally is much ligliter, especially about the eyes and 
chanfrin, which are both surrounded with a black circle. 
Are not these different ages of the same animal ? 
Note Mr Waterhouse, in the Annals of Natural History, Vol. II. p. 
468, has described the skins of several Quadrumanous animals, hrouglit 
to the Zoological Society’s Museum from Fernando I’o. Not having had 
an opportunity of examining the skins themselves, or of procuring draw- 
ings, we have abstained from noticing them in the text. 
1. CoLOBUs Pennantii, Waterli., seems not to differ specifically from 
the Bay Monkey of Pennant. 
2. CoLOBUS Satanas, Waterh., greatly resembles the Culobus Guereza 
of Ruppell, if it be not absolutely identical therewith. 
3. Cercopithecos Martini, Waterh., founded upon two skins, of 
which the face and hands were wanting, resembles the Vaulting Guenon 
(C. nictitans). 
4. CERCoriTHEcus Erythbotis, Waterh., wanting the face and hands,. 
seems to resemble the Moustache Guenon (C. Cephus). 
5. 6. Two others, Colobus leucomeros and C. ursinus, are mentioned 
from the same locality. 
1 Brown, Illustr. — New Illustrations of Zoology, by Peter Brown. London, 1776. 
2 Storr, Prodr. — Prodiomus Jlethodi Mammalium. Auutore Theophilus C. C. Storr. Tub. 1780. 
3 Pai.l. Glir Xovae Species Quadrupedum e Glirium ordine. Auctore Petro Sun. Pallas. Erlang. 1778. 
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