Chapter III: Allen's Galago. Galago Alleni

_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.