_Galago allenii_, Waterh., P. Z. S., 1837, p. 87; Sclater, P. Z. S.,
1863, p. 375, pl. xxxii.
_Galago allenii_, var. _gabonensis_, Gray, P. Z. S., 1863, p. 146.
_Galago gabonensis_, Mivart, P. Z. S., 1864, p. 630.
_Galago (Otolicnus) allenii_, Mivart, P. Z. S., 1864, p. 647.
_Otogale pallida_, Gray, P. Z. S., 1863, p. 140, pl. xix.
_Otolicnus apicalis_, du Chaillu, Equat. Africa, App., p. 471.
_Galago elegantulus_, Slack, Proc. Ac. Sc. Phil., 1861, p. 153.
(_Plate IV._)
{44}CHARACTERS.--Head round; muzzle pointed; eyes very large; ears also
very large, long, nude, and membranaceous; fingers and toes very long,
slender, and fine. Tail thick, round, and longer than the body; ankle-bones
elongated. Length of body, 8¼ inches; tail, 10 inches. Head brownish-grey;
a narrow black ring round the eyes; a streak from the forehead down the
nose whitish; back greyish-brown, washed (sometimes markedly) with rufous
on the upper back, fading out towards the root of the tail; the latter
black or greyish-black. Outside of arms and legs washed with rufous,
sometimes with a white spot on the shoulder-joint and over the groin;
posterior aspect of legs sooty-black; cheeks, sides of nose, entire under
surface, and inner side of limbs creamy-white with a rufous-washed bar
across the chest. Muzzle shorter than the diameter of eye-socket. Incisors
seen from the side, more or less hidden by the canines; anterior upper
pre-molar very canine-like, relatively much produced longitudinally, with
an interval between the anterior and median pre-molars; posterior upper
pre-molar four-cusped, and with an intermediate cusp on the oblique ridge;
posterior upper molar almost equal in size to the median one.
DISTRIBUTION.--This species has been recorded from the Gaboon, in West
Africa, and from Fernando Po, whence it was first obtained by Captain
Allen, R.N., in 1837.
HABITS.--Although little or nothing has been recorded of its habits, it is
unlikely that they differ much from those of the species already known.