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INSECTIVORES. 
The common cobego is found in Sumatra, Borneo, Java, the 
Malay Peninsula, Tenasserim, and Siam, and is known as Galeopithecus 
volans. It is about the size of a cat; and its habits have been well described by 
Mr. Wallace, who met with it in Sumatra. He observes that the cobego “is 
sluggish in its motions, at least by day, going up a tree by short runs of a few 
feet, and then stopping a moment as if the action was difficult. It rests during the 
day clinging to the trunks of trees, where its olive or brown fur, mottled with 
irregular whitish spots and blotches, resembles closely the colour of mottled bark, 
the cobego (£ uat. size). 
and no doubt helps to protect it. Once, in a bright twilight, I saw one of these 
animals run up a trunk in a rather open place, and then glide obliquely through 
the air to another tree, on which it alighted near its base, and immediately began 
to ascend. I paced the distance from the one tree to the other, and found it to be 
seventy yards; and the amount of descent I estimated at not more than thirty-five 
or forty feet, or less than one in five. This I think proves that the animal must 
have some power of guiding itself through the air, otherwise in so long a distance 
it would have little chance of alighting upon the trunk. The galeopithecus feeds 
chiefly on leaves, and possesses a very voluminous stomach and long convoluted 
intestines. The hair is very small: and the animal possesses such a remarkable 
