THE OTHER BEASTS 



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proper, together with their more or less distant relatives) 

 as " lemuroids " reserving the word lemurs for the 

 animals most properly so called. 

 Fig. 84. 





THE RING-TAILED LEMUR. 



Such true lemurs are animals of about the size of a cat, 

 with sharp-pointed muzzles and long tails well clothed 

 with hair, while a soft thick fur invests the whole body. 

 Their legs are not much longer than their arms, while 

 each extremity is, as in the case of the monkeys, modi- 



