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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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hich makes them dull and inanimate. During the day, they sleep clinging to a branch, with the body drawntogether, and head sunk upon the chest; at night they prowl among the forest boughs in quest of food.Nothing can escape the scrutiny of their large glaring orbs : they mark their victim, insect or bird, and cautiouslyand noiselessly make their advances towards it, until it is within the reach of their grasp; they then devour it onthe spot, previously divesting it, if a bird, of its feathers. When rousing from their diurnal slumbers, theydelight to clean and lick their full soft fur; and in captivity will then allow themselves to be caressed by thoseaccustomed to feed them : they are remarkable for extreme tenacity of grasp. The Pottos {Perodicficus, Bennett)— Have comparatively small eyes ; the ears moderate and open : dentition approaching that of the Lemurs ;tail moderate; limbs equal; the index finger of the anterior hands (fig. 5) little more than rudimentary. QU.UJRU.MANA. 65
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Ft(r. S.—Hand of Potto. Geoffroys Potto (Lemur polio, Lin.; Galtigo Gruaieuais, Dcsm. jP. Geoffroi/i, Iki).)—From Sierra Leone; a slow-movin? and retiringanimal, which seUlom makes its appearance but in tlie iti^ltt-tlnic,and feeds on vegetables, chiefly the Cassada.] The Galago.s {Ololicnu.t, lUig.)—Have tlie teeth and insectivorous regimen of the Loris ; tlietarsi elongated, which gives to their hinder limbs a dispro-portionate extent; tail long and tufted ; large membranous ears[which double down when at rest, as in some Hats]; andgreat eyes, which indicate a nocturnal life. [The inde.x, as well85 the thumb of the anterior hand, incUues in some to be op-posable to the other fingers.] Several species are known, all from Africa; as the Great GA\&go(Gala.iaermsicaiirtalm, Geof.), as large as a Rabbit; and the Senegal Galago(G.Sein-galensit, Geof.), the size of a Rat. The latter is known as the Gumanimal of Senegal, from its feeding much on that production, [These pretty anim
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