_Galago du Sénégal_, Geoffr., Mag. Encycl. Ann. 4^e, p. 1 (1796).
_Galago senegalensis_, Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 166 (1812); Is.
Geoffr., Cat. Méth. Primates, p. 81 (1851); Schlegel, Mus. Pays Bas,
vii., p. 329 (1876).
_Galagoides senegalensis_, Smith, S. Afr. Q. Journ., ii., pt. 1, p. 32
(1833).
_Galago moholi_, Smith, Ill. Zool. S. Afr. Mamm., pls. 8, 8 _bis_ (1839);
Gray, P. Z. S., 1863, p. 147.
{42}_Otolicnus galago_, Wagner in Schreber's Säug. Suppl., i., p. 292
(1840); Van der Hoeven, Tijdschr. Nat. Ges., xi., p. 41 (1844).
_Otolicnus senegalensis_, Peters, Reis Mozamb. Säug., p. 11 (1852).
_Galago senaariensis_, J. E. Gray, P. Z. S., 1863, p. 147, Mivart, P. Z.
S., 1864, p. 647.
_Galago (Otolicnus) moholi_, Mivart, P. Z. S., 1864, p. 647.
CHARACTERS.--Body slender; head broad and sub-globular; nose high and
pointed; ears large, bare, and with narrow rounded tips; hind-limbs longer
than the fore-; tail with longer hair at tip. Fur very thick and soft on
body and tail. Upper side pinkish-grey, or faded white with a slight wash
of pink; back, sides of body, and outer surface of limbs pearly to
yellowish-white; sometimes a dark ring round the eyes; a streak down the
nose white or yellowish-white; ears flesh-coloured, sprinkled with pure
white down; head, face, whole of under sides and inner sides of limbs
white, yellowish, or whitish-buff; tail yellowish or reddish brown, darker
at tip, lighter beneath; upper surface of hands and feet white, washed with
yellow. Length of body, 7-8½ inches; tail of about the same length. The
male and female are of the same size and of the same colour, but the male
is somewhat more washed with yellow. Muzzle shorter than the diameter of
the eye-socket; the bony palate not extending past the hinder end of the
median molar. Anterior and median upper molars slightly larger than the
posterior pre-molar; the latter as well as the two anterior molars with a
small cusp between the two front cusps.
DISTRIBUTION.--This beautiful little Lemur was first recorded from Senegal,
in West Africa. It occurs, however, from about 25° S. lat. in South Africa
northwards to Tete on the Zambesi, through the mountainous regions of East
Africa, on the shores of Lake Nyasa, to as far north as Senaar.