Catalogue of monkeys, lemurs, and fruit-eating bats in the collection of the British museum . Microcebus, Water-house ; Peters ; Jlivarl. 8. 87 Fig. WW Lepilemur murin us (Mivart.) * Hack uniform. Species 1.** Hack with black streak, forked on forehead. Species 2. * Back uniform. 1. Lepilemur murinns. B. M. Back pale reddish grey, undcrpart of the fur deep black; broadstreak up the nose between the orbits, the cheeks, and the undersidewhitish ; in front of the orbits on the side of the nose brown ; tailrather browner, slender, rather longer than the head and body; earsrather l
Catalogue of monkeys, lemurs, and fruit-eating bats in the collection of the British museum . Microcebus, Water-house ; Peters ; Jlivarl. 8. 87 Fig. WW Lepilemur murin us (Mivart.) * Hack uniform. Species 1.** Hack with black streak, forked on forehead. Species 2. * Back uniform. 1. Lepilemur murinns. B. M. Back pale reddish grey, undcrpart of the fur deep black; broadstreak up the nose between the orbits, the cheeks, and the undersidewhitish ; in front of the orbits on the side of the nose brown ; tailrather browner, slender, rather longer than the head and body; earsrather large, rounded at the end, pale, covered with short scatteredhairs on the outside. Lemur minimis, Miller, Cim. p. 25, t. 13. Microcebus murinus,Waterhouse, Cat. mm. Zool. Soc. p. 12. no. 90 (male), (, Gray, Ann. 8, May. N. IT. 1842, x. p. 257. ? Little Macaco,Penn. Quad. Lepilemur murinus, Gray, P. Z. S. 18G3, p. 143. Ilab. Madagascar : from Zoological Society. Millers figures very well represent this animal, but the tail ismore bushy and browner than in our specimens; the feet arc of theproper size and form. The skull of tho adult male has
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