Note 3 — Decade Fourth

This is the flying lemur (Galeopithecus philippinensis; called káguang or caguán by the Visayans), an animal belonging to the Quadrumana, and the Prosimidæ (semi-apes). Alfred R. Wallace found it in Sumatra, Borneo, and Singapore; see his description of it in Malay Archipelago (New York, 1869), pp. 145, 146. Jagor found it in Sámar—Travels in the Philippines (English translation, London, 1875), pp. 242–244. See also [184] Delgado’s description (Historia, p. 845). This lemur has, like the flying squirrel, a volucral membrane, which not only covers all its limbs but reaches to its tail; and thus the creature glides from tree to tree. This explains the writer’s allusion to it as a bird.