COBEGO, kb-biVgo, or KAGUAN, The native name of a singular group of East Indian flying insectivores, constituting the family Galeopitheeithe and genus Galeopithecus, having one species (Galeopithecus rolitans) and per haps another. They are known in the Malayan region as cobegos, eolugos, kaguans. kubongs. etc., and in many hooks as flying lemurs, this aberrant and puzzling group having at first been considered lemuroids. They are slender, long-limbed, large-clawed, long-tailed, fox-headed animals, about 18 inches in length, clothed in exquisitely soft, short and protectively mot tled fur, and provided with a folded extension of the skin which extends from the neck nearly to the tip of the tail and includes the feet, which are fully webbed. This parachute thus equals that of the best furnished bats in ex tent, but it is furry both above and below. The dentition, the pectoral position of the teats, to which the single young one (born so incomplete as to suggest marsupial affinities) is attached, and the habit of clinging to a sup port head downward, are other resemblances to the bats; in flight the cobego does not equal thean, but it can sail longer distances, and come nearer to guiding its course, than do any other 'flying' mammals. It is wholly arboreal in its
life, and active mainly in the evening and early morning, disliking the glare of day, and impeded by the darkness of midnight. It spends most of its time scrambling about the branches and seems to feed upon anything that comes in its way, but mostly upon leaves and fruit. In sleep it hangs head downward, clinging with its hind feet, and by means of the prehensile free tips of its tail, when it is nearly invisible among the flickering lights of the leaves. Consult: Wallace, Malay Archipelago (London, 1869) ; Moseley, Notes by a Naturalist on the 'Challenger' (Lon don, 1879).