28 African Zoology. 



Illiger, Prod. 72. Maki a bourre, Sonn. Voy. ii. t. 89. Le 

 Maki a hours, Buff. Supp. 7- p- 48. Lemur laniger, Shaw. 

 Zool. vol. i.p.l.p. 99. Jig. 34. 



Genus Prosimia. Brisson. 



Incisors h canines ^\, molars f ', — 32. Superior incisors 

 united in pairs ; inferior ones long, inclined, and the outermost 

 of each side largest; superior canines long and compressed; 

 molars with blunt tuberculous crowns ; two pectoral mamma ; 

 head long and somewhat triangular; muzzle slender; ears 

 rounded and hairy ; tail longer than the body ; hair soft and 

 woolly. 



Prosimia Mongooz. (The IMougooz.) Upper part of head, 

 neck, back, tail, and extremities, brownish ash or yellowish 

 grey ; throat, breast, belly, and insides of extremities, dusky 

 white, more or less tinged with tawny ; space between eyes and 

 circle round them black ; lower portion of face white ; eyes 

 orange coloured. Length from nose to root of tail seventeen 

 inches ; length of tail seventeen inches and a half. 



Inhabits Madagascar. 



Lemur Mongoz, Lin. Syst. Nat. 44. Mongous, Buff. xiii. 

 Mongooz, Glean, pi. 216. Woolly Macauco, Peun. Quad. 

 Sha^^s Zool. vol. 1. part 1. p, 96. 



Prosimia nigra. (Black Maucauco.) Fur black, very long 

 on the sides of the head and on the neck ; nose and under sur- 

 face of hands deep black ; tail longer than the body, rather 

 bushy and of an equal thickness throughout ; eyes bright 

 reddish yellow. 



Inhabits Madagascar. 



Lemur niger, Geoff. Ann. Mus. six. 159. Black Maucauco, 

 Edw, Glean, pi. 217. 



Prosimianigiifrons, (Black-fronted Lemur.) Above greyish ash 

 with a pale tawny or reddish tinge along the middle of the back ; 

 beneath white with a tawny cast ; lower part of face, centre of 

 forehead, crown of head and nape, deep black ; rump, vent, and 

 space about scrotum, a lighter black ; sides of forehead over 

 eyes and the ears, greyish grizzled with black ; hands inclined 

 to ferruginous ; tail tawny grey inclined to black at the tip 

 which is tufted. Length from nose to base of tail eighteen 

 inches, length of tail fifteen inches. 



Inhabits Madagascar. 



Lemur nigrifrons, Geoff. Ann. Mus. sJx. 160. Maki vi. 

 Briss. Reg. Animal, 220. Schreb. t. 42. 



Prosimia catta. (Ring-tailed Macaco) Face white with a 

 black circle round each eye ; nose black j top of the head a 



