Catalogue of monkeys, lemurs, and fruit-eating bats in the collection of the British museum . 81 Galar/o Monteiri. (Mivart.) * * Head short, broad; face short, conical; ci/es large. Euoticus. 4. Otogale pallida. B. M. Fur palo grey, whitish beneath, with a roundish white spot on theside, over tho axilla, and the groin ; tail very long, cylindrical, nearlyhalf as long again as tho body and head. Otogale pallida, Gray, P. Z. S. 18G3, p. 140, t. 10. Var. Tip of tail white. Otolicnus apicalis, T>u Chaillu, Travels, p. 471; Boston Jonrn. 18G1,vii. p. 3(!J. Microcebus elegantulus, Lceonfe, Proc.
Catalogue of monkeys, lemurs, and fruit-eating bats in the collection of the British museum . 81 Galar/o Monteiri. (Mivart.) * * Head short, broad; face short, conical; ci/es large. Euoticus. 4. Otogale pallida. B. M. Fur palo grey, whitish beneath, with a roundish white spot on theside, over tho axilla, and the groin ; tail very long, cylindrical, nearlyhalf as long again as tho body and head. Otogale pallida, Gray, P. Z. S. 18G3, p. 140, t. 10. Var. Tip of tail white. Otolicnus apicalis, T>u Chaillu, Travels, p. 471; Boston Jonrn. 18G1,vii. p. 3(!J. Microcebus elegantulus, Lceonfe, Proc. Acad. N. 1857 ; Slack, ftoc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1801, p. 153. Hab. Fernando To, Cajpt. Burton. Feet 2 6. Skull, length 2, breadth 1 4; orbits pro-minent and produced on tbc sides; wider than tbe zygomaticarch. This species, which has the tectb exactly like tbc other Otogalac,by tbe shortness of its head and tbe large size of the eyes and orbitof the skull forms a passage to the Galagoids. 82 Otogale pallida. b. Head roundish ; face short. Eyes very large. 7. GALAGO. Ears large, pellucid, membranaceous, hinder edge ?—? ; tho upper equal, slender, the lower shelving up-ward. Tho upper canines erect; tho lower ones decumbent,shelving forward and upward. The first false grinder short,broad, threc-lobed, like the others, and not prominent and erectlike the canines. Feet elongate, slender, nearly as long as theshank or shin ; tarsal bone longer than tho metatarsal. Cheirosciurus, Cuv. $• Geoff. 1795. Galago et Golagoides, A. , Swainson. Galago, Gray, P. Z. S. 18G3, p. 145. Mr. Ogilby says that the index finger is partly opposable to the otherfingers and forms a group with the thumb (Proe. Zool. Soc.~) ; butthis does not ngree with our observations or with the construction ofthe fingers of specimens in spirits. * Tail thick, with spreading hairs; fingers and toes very slender, elongate;the upper cutting-teeth placed
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