On Anomalurus, its structure and position / by Edward R. Alston.
- Edward Richard Alston
- Date:
- 1875
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On Anomalurus, its structure and position / by Edward R. Alston. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![1860. Anomalurus beldeni, Du Chaillu, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. vii. p. 303*. Above grizzled sooty brown, extremities darker, area round ears blackish. Below dirty white, chin and throat dark grey. Mea- surements of a small specimen in the flesh :•—head and body 11 in., tail 11*50, ear C30, fore foot (without claw) 1-40, hind foot 2. Hub. Fernando Po (Fraser, Brit. Mus.) ; Gambia ? (Brit. Mus.); Ashantee (Mus. R. Coll. Surg.). 2. Anomalurus pelii. 1845. Anomalurus pelii, Temminck, Yerhand. over de Nat. Geschied. der Nederl. Bezitt. i. (d. ii.) p. 108 ; Esquisses Zool. (1853), p. 146. Above sooty black; the broad margin of the flying-expansion, nose, long hairs at base of ears, tail, and lower parts white; feet white, mixed with dusky. Measurements of a specimen in the flesh :— head and body 17 in., tail 17’75, ear 1*75, fore foot 160, hind foot 2-50. Hub. Fantee, Ashantee (Pel, Leyden Mus.; Brit. Mus.). 3. Anomalurus beecrofti. 1852. Anomalurus beecrofti, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1852, p. 17, pi. xxxii. Above grizzled yellowish grey, washed along the spine with rufous ; front part of flying-expansion dusky ; a short pale band on each side of the neck, and a small white spot between the ears ; tail dusky brown. Below bright rufous. Measurements of a dry skin : —head and body 15 in., tail 9. Hub. Ashantee (Fraser, Brit. Mus.) ; Cameroon Mountains, 7000 feet above sea (Burtoti, Brit. Mus.)f. 4. ? Anomalurus laniger. 1853. Anomalurus laniyer, Temminck, Esquisses Zoologiques, p. 149. Above grizzled grey, washed along the spine and on the shoulders with rufous ; tail brown. Throat and breast rufous, rest of the lower parts reddish white. Fur throughout short, thick, woolly, and crisp. Measurements of a dry skin :—head and body 9 in., tail 7. Hab. West Afriea, exact locality not known (Leyden Mus.). I have not seen Temminck’s type, which is described as not fully grown and in bad condition. Probably it is the young of the last species, in which the fur is certainly shorter and more woolly than in the others. 5. Anomalurus fulgens. (Plate XXI.) 1867. Anomalurus fulgens, Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4th ser.), iii. p. 469. Nearly uniform bright rufous, rather paler below, and passing to * Cf Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 275. + Cf. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 180. [10] '](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22455346_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
