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Show 1866.] MR. A. MURRAY ON GALAGO MURINUS. 561 " Young ones of both species are brought to us about this period of the year (July 26). Mr. Robb has a young specimen of the smaller species just now, and about this time last year I became possessed of one of the larger. It was a most interesting and amusing pet, not only quite tame, but manifesting strong attachment. I had it for about six weeks in m y possession, when, unfortunately both for myself and it, it took a false leap into a water-barrel and was drowned. It was a very epitome of zoology, of the size and colour of a large rat; it had the tail of a squirrel, the facial outline of the fox, the membranous ears of the bat, the eyes and somewhat of the manners of the owl in its cool odd way of peering at objects, the long slender fingers of a lean old man, who habitually eats down his nails, and all the mirthfulness and agility of a diminutive monkey. It hated its cage at night, but delighted to leap among the bars of the chairs ranged purposely round the table for it. It could clear a horizontal distance of at least 6 feet at a leap ; and whenever it fell, as during its short apprenticeship it often did, and from alarming heights too, it gave expression to its parenthetic chagrin by a rough sort of purring. It possessed a curious power of folding its membranous ears back upon themselves, and somewhat corrugating them at pleasure; and it appeared to me that the palms of its hands, all four, were endowed in some degree with the power of suction, such as the walrus is said to possess in perfection. I have seen it maintain itself in positions where the mere lateral pressure of its limbs appeared to be inadequate for the purpose ; and I once applied it to the side of a cylindrical glass shade, of which it could not embrace so much as a third of the circumference, and sure enough it maintained its position for some time, gradually sliding down until it gave way. The palm was very much depressed, always clean and glistening, surrounded by five papilliform growths, those near the roots of the fingers serving as points of opposition to them, the fingers never closing beyond the palm. " Mr. Robb had one of your species in his possession for a considerable while. It devoured grasshoppers and even the fierce Man-tides greedily, as well as moths, little as it was ; but I never saw mine muster courage enough to attack either grasshopper or Mantis, though nearly twice as large as Mr. Robb's. No doubt mine would by-and-by have become less particular and more daring. " With its friends the smaller species, which we have figured, was very familiar, and used to run over their persons with perfect freedom. A favourite place of refuge was up the coat-sleeve of its master ; and a still more frequent retreat was under his whisker, and between it and his shirt-collar." This sufficiently shows the views of those who have seen these two species in their native country. 2. The next evidence I shall offer is the fact that the small ones breed, which, although it may not absolutely indicate maturity, at least implies nearly full size. M y friend Mr. Thomson has been invalided, and is now in this country. 1 have not had the pleasure of seeing him since his return |