Chapter II: The Red-Tailed Sportive-Lemur. Lepidolemur Ruficaudatus

_Lepilemur ruficaudatus_, Grandidier, Rev. et. Mag. de Zool., 1867, p.
256.

{87}_Lepilemur pallidicauda_, Gray, P. Z. S., 1872, p. 850.

_Lepilemur mustelinus_ (nec. Is. Geoffr.), Schl., Mus. P. B., vii., p.
317 (in part).

CHARACTERS.--Smaller than the last species; head much broader than it is long; snout short and conical; ears ovate, exposed, short-haired; tail long, thicker at the end, and covered with softer and longer hairs. Fur pale or reddish-grey; head dark brown; the shoulders and outer side of the arms grey, washed with brown; chin, breast, and inner side of limbs and under side of body whitish; upper side of the base of the tail rather dark brown, this colour extending further down in the tail of the female; rest of the tail uniform pale brownish or greyish-red.

Skull very broad compared with its length, more massive, and showing a shorter muzzle than in _L. mustelinus_; orbits smaller than in any of the other species in Group A.

DISTRIBUTION.--South-western Madagascar.