. The popular natural history . Zoology. 3° THE SLOW-PACED LORIS. ning speed, and with a movement so rapid that the eye can hardly follow it, the bird is torn from its perch, and almost before its eyes are opened from slumber, they are closed for ever in death. The Slow-paced Loris, or Kukang, is very similar in its habits to the animal just mentioned, but differs from it in size, colour, and several parts of its form. The fur is of a texture rather more woolly than that of the Slender Loris, and its colour has something of a chestnut tinge running through it, although some specimens are nearl
. The popular natural history . Zoology. 3° THE SLOW-PACED LORIS. ning speed, and with a movement so rapid that the eye can hardly follow it, the bird is torn from its perch, and almost before its eyes are opened from slumber, they are closed for ever in death. The Slow-paced Loris, or Kukang, is very similar in its habits to the animal just mentioned, but differs from it in size, colour, and several parts of its form. The fur is of a texture rather more woolly than that of the Slender Loris, and its colour has something of a chestnut tinge running through it, although some specimens are nearly as grey as the Slender Loris. As may be seen from the engraving, a dark stripe surrounds the eyes, ears, and back of the head, reaching to the corners of the mouth. From thence it runs along the entire length of the spine. The colour of this dark band is a deep chestnut. It is rather larger than the preceding animal, being a little more than a foot in length. In the formation of these creatures some very curious structures are found, among which is the singular grouping of arteries and veins in the KUKANG, OR SLOW-PACED LORIS.—{Nyctiiebi,! Javarincus.') Instead of the usual tree-like mode in which the limbs of most animals are supplied with blood—one large trunk-vessel entering the limb, and then branching off into numerous subdivisions—the limbs of the Loris are furnished with blood upon a strangely modified system. The arteries and veins, as they enter and leave the limb, are suddenly divided into a great number of cylindrical vessels, lying close to each other for some distance, and giving off their tubes to the different parts of the limb. It is possible that to this formation m^y be owing the power of silent movement and slow patience which has been mentioned as the property of these monkeys, for a \ eiy similar structure is found to exist in the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhan
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