. Catalogue of monkeys, lemurs, and fruit-eating bats in the collection of the British museum. Monkeys; Lemurs; Pteropodidae. 9. MICROBHTNCHUS. 89 Dr. Dahlbom observes that this species wotild be a Lepilemur if it were without upper cutting-teeth; but as ovaLepilemures have these teeth, I think it had better be placed in this genus. Tail elongate ; face rather compressed; orbit large, like Otogale ; the cutting-teeth produced horizontally in front, the lower much the longest; the first upper false grinder elongate like a canine.ââ Blainv. Osteog. i. t. 7. Lepilemur furcifer. (Mivart.) Trib
. Catalogue of monkeys, lemurs, and fruit-eating bats in the collection of the British museum. Monkeys; Lemurs; Pteropodidae. 9. MICROBHTNCHUS. 89 Dr. Dahlbom observes that this species wotild be a Lepilemur if it were without upper cutting-teeth; but as ovaLepilemures have these teeth, I think it had better be placed in this genus. Tail elongate ; face rather compressed; orbit large, like Otogale ; the cutting-teeth produced horizontally in front, the lower much the longest; the first upper false grinder elongate like a canine.ââ Blainv. Osteog. i. t. 7. Lepilemur furcifer. (Mivart.) Tribe III. MICRORHYNCHINA. Head short, subglobose. Ears small, hairy, hidden. Face short, tapering. Eyes large. 9. MICRORHYNCHUS. Tail elongate, cylindrical, hairy. Ears hidden under the fur. Thumb and index finger without the second phalange. Nostrils se- parated by a narrow septum. Hind foot short and broad. Claws elongate, convex, acute; claw of first toe elongate, cyhndrical. Microrhynchus, Jourdan, 1834; Gray, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 141. Ava- his, I. Oeoff. 1835. Indria, A. Smith, 1834; Semnocebus, Lesson, 1840. TJichaaot'as, lUigeir; Wagler. Kyahi, Jourd. Habrocebus, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875. London, Printed by order of the Trustees
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