Lamberton, C. — Contribution à la connaissance de la faune subfossile de Madagascar. Note III. Les hadropithèques.

Tananarive, l'Academie Malgache, 1938. 4to (28.1 x 22.5 cm). 44 pp., seven plates (skulls, other skeleton parts), each with printed tissue guards, 14 text engravings. Later wrappers. = Important and well-illustrated monograph of the peculiar ground lemur, Hadropithecus stenognathus, which became extinxct shortly after the arrival of Man. Hadropithecus is regarded as the "baboon" among the lemurs, as it occupied a niche similar to that of the African baboons, and in being analogue in shape and behaviour. Excerpt from the academy's Bulletin. The tissue guards contain the printed plate explanations, the text is uncut. A very good, clean copy. Rare.