Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences edinburghjournal02macg Year: 1835 30 THE EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY, TEETH OF THE FLYING LEMUR. In the accompanying wood-cut, we supply a representation of the curious dental system of the Red Flying Lemur, that singular animal, about the size of a Cat, provided all round with a regular parachute which sup- ports it in the air, and enables it to take immense leaps, though it can- not fly like the Bats. These sketches were supplied by Audebert, in his great work upon the Monkeys, and were taken from a stuffed specimen
Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences edinburghjournal02macg Year: 1835 30 THE EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY, TEETH OF THE FLYING LEMUR. In the accompanying wood-cut, we supply a representation of the curious dental system of the Red Flying Lemur, that singular animal, about the size of a Cat, provided all round with a regular parachute which sup- ports it in the air, and enables it to take immense leaps, though it can- not fly like the Bats. These sketches were supplied by Audebert, in his great work upon the Monkeys, and were taken from a stuffed specimen, in which the whole of the mouth could not be examined- Figure A shows the incisors of the lower jaw, of their natural size. In figure B these are magnified, to show their singular pectinated appearance. The foremost tooth in figure C is a profile view of the last of the incisors of the upper jaw ; the next is regarded as the canine, and the third, very much of the same shape, is the first molar, which is followed by four others, of the same general appearance, though somewhat less in size. The teeth are thus in many ways anomalous, as is the strange animal to which they belong. The Hippopotamus, (Hippopotamus amphibius.}—This animal abounds in the Limpopo, dividing the empire with its amphibious neighbour the Crocodile. Throughout the night the unwieldy monsters might be heard snorting and blowing during their aquatic gambols, and we not unfrequently detected them in the act of sallying from their reed- grown coverts, to graze by the serene light of the moon ; never, however, venturing to any distance from the river, the stronghold to which they betake themselves on the smallest alarm. Occasionally, during the day, they were to be seen basking on the shore, amid ooze and mud ; but shots were most constantly to be had at their uncouth heads, when protruded from the water to draw breath j and, if killed, the body rose to the surface. Vulnerable only behind the ear, however
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