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heads, have been called Fox-nosed Monkeys. Their food is fruit. Their 

 species are very numerous, and are only met with in the island of Mada- 

 gascar, where they appear to replace the monkeys, none of which, it is 

 said, are to be found there. Nearly all the difference that exists between 

 them is in the colour. 



L. catta, L. ; Le Mococo, Buff. XIII. 22. Ashy-grey ; tail black, 

 and white rings. 



L. macaco, L. .; Le Vari, Buff. XIII. 27. Variegated with large 

 black and white spots. 



L. ruber, Peron ; Le Maki rouge, Fr. Cuv. Mammif. A lively 

 reddish chestnut ; head, four hands, tail, and belly black ; a white spot 

 on the nape of the neck, a red tuft to each ear. 



Ij. mangos, lu.; Le Mongous, Buff. XIII. 2G. All brown; face 

 and hands black ; and other neighbouring species or varieties, such as 



L. albifrons, Geoff. ; Le Mongous (i front hlanc, Audeb., Makis, 

 pi. 3. Brown; forehead white, &'c.* 



InDRIS. LiCHANOTUS, //%. 



Teeth like the preceding, except that there are only four in the lower 

 jaw. 



One species only is known ; it has no tail ; is three feet high ; 

 black; face grey; posteriors white, ( Lemur Indri), Somierat. Se- 

 cond Voy., pi. 86. The inhabitants of Madagascar tame and train it 

 like a houndf. 



LoRis. — Stenops, Illig. 



The Sloth Monkeys have the teeth of the Makis, except that they have 

 sharper points to the grinders ; the short muzzle of a mastiff; body slen- 

 der; no tail; eyes large and approximated; tongue rough. 



They feed on insects, occasionally on small birds or quadrupeds ; their 

 gait is excessively slow, and mode of life nocturnal. M. Carlisle has 

 found at the trunk of .the arteries of the limbs the same state of ramifica- 

 tion as is found in the true Sloths. Two species only are known, both of 

 them from the East Indies. 



Lem. tardigradus, L. (The Loris Sloth, or Sloth of Bengal). 

 Buff. Supp. VII. 36. Fawn-coloured grey, a brown streak along 

 the back; two of the upper incisors sometimes wanting j. 



* Add the Black Maki, L.; Niger, Edw. 218. — The Black-fronted Maki {L. nigri- 

 frons, GeoiF.) — The Black-headed Makis (L. melanocephalus, Fr. Cuv.) — The Straw- 

 berry Maki, — The Red Maki, Audeb. pi. 2, &c. But it is not certain that many of 

 these species do not resolve themselves the one into the other. See Geoff., Ann 

 Mus. XIX. p. 160. 



f The Long-tailed Indri, {Lemur laniger, Gem.) Sonnerat, Second Voy., pi. 87, 

 needs revision. 



+ The slowness of its gait, which caused it to be mistaken for a Sloth, has in- 

 duced some authors to maintain, in opposition to Buffon and to truth, that the genus 

 of the Sloths exists also in Asia. 



