. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. LTT-f, VLVOO. SOLE OF FOOT colour, even this slightly varying. It is of a light chinchilla-grey all over, save the tail and the throat, which are nearly white. The nose is black and bare, and the feet are deep brown. The entire length of the animal is twenty-eight inches, whereof the tail is sixteen. The ears are a couple of inches long, and blackish. Mr. Bartlett remarks that when these ai-e thrown forwards they give the head a re- semblance to that of the Aye-Aye ; but when they are folded back and down the physiognomy approaches that of
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. LTT-f, VLVOO. SOLE OF FOOT colour, even this slightly varying. It is of a light chinchilla-grey all over, save the tail and the throat, which are nearly white. The nose is black and bare, and the feet are deep brown. The entire length of the animal is twenty-eight inches, whereof the tail is sixteen. The ears are a couple of inches long, and blackish. Mr. Bartlett remarks that when these ai-e thrown forwards they give the head a re- semblance to that of the Aye-Aye ; but when they are folded back and down the physiognomy approaches that of the Douroucouli. Sir John Kirk (who accompanied Dr. Livingstone) says : *' While the G. maJioli is peculiar to the interior, where its geographical range seems to be great, the other, or Great-tailed Galago {G. Monteirl), is confined to the maritime region—so far as I know, never penetrating teyond the band of wood known generally as the mangi-ove forests. By the Por- tuguese it is named ' Eat of the Cocoa-nut Palm,' that being its favourite haunt by day, nestling among the fronds; but if it be disturbed, performing feats of agility, and darting from one palm to another. It will spring with great rapidity, adhering to any object as if it were a lump of wet clay. " It has one faOing—otherwise its capture were no easy task. Shovild a pot of palm-wine be left on the tree, the creature drinks to excess, comes down, and rushes about intoxicated. In captivity they are wild ; during the day remaining either rolled up in a ball, or perched half asleep, with ears stowed away like a Beetle's wing under its hard and ornamented case (elytra). I had half a dozen Squirrels with one in the same cage; these were good friends, the latter creeping under the 'Golgo's' soft fur and falling asleep. On introducing a few specimens of Slu'ew (Macroscelides tetradactylus), the ' Golgo' seized one and bit off its tail, which, however, it did not eat. The food it took was biscuit, rice, orange,
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