Identifier: reviewofprimates01elli (find matches)
Title: A review of the primates
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Elliot, Daniel Giraud, 1835-1915
Subjects: Primates
Publisher: New York, U.S.A. : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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arms ochraceous, with silvery whitehairs mingled with the darker ones; legs buff, hairs tipped with silverywhite; under parts, plumbeous at base, apical portion ochraceous; handsand feet silvery white. Measurements. Total length head and body, 205; foot, 50. Skull:total length, 52.2; occipito-nasal length, 52.1; intertemporal width,18.9; Hensel, 40.8; zygomatic width, 38.4; median length of nasals,16.4; palatal length, 16.4; length of upper molar series, 16.4; length ofmandible, 36.1; length of lower molar series, 14. Several adults in British Museum received after publication of thespecies from the same locality as type. This type is a young animalprobably half grown. The hair or down is very silky, and of a uniformpale cinnamon color, clear cinnamon on the head and dorsal region.The ears are small, black, naked at the tips which are visible, the basalportion being hidden in the fur; hands and feet are small, the latterwell covered with hair and the nails of a yellowish white color.
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Arctocebus calabarensis. No. 11.11,oO.l. Bril. Mus. Coll, /i larger than Nat. Sizt. ARCTOCEBUS 35 GENUS 3. ARCTOCEBUS. THE ANGWANTIBO. 1.2=5; C. iin; P. 3^; M. 3—3 = 36. ARCTOCEBUS Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, p. 150. TypePerodicticus calaharensis Smith. Body rather slender: head oval; muzzle blunt, dog like: eyeslarge; lower phalanges of hands and feet, except of thumb, united inthe skin; two upper joints free; index finger reduced to a tubercle,without a nail. Limbs subequal, the hind ones being slightly longerthan the fore limbs. The feet are larger than the hands; the great toehas a rather large fleshy tubercle at its base on the inner side, and isopposable to the other toes; the nails are thin and flat except that ofthe second toe which is like a claw, being thin, convex and acute.Ears erect; two transverse ridges lie above the auditory meatus, withfine hairs on the inner margins standing upright. Unlike the speciesof the genus Perodicticus, the processes of the cervical

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