NATURALIST'S CABINET. 



Description. 



to the best and most accurate accounts it may 

 be considered as a distinct and separate species. 



The Comte de Buffon describes one of these 

 quadrupeds as measuring seventeen inches, ex- 

 clusive of the tail, which was about fifteen inches 

 and a half long, of a greyish colour, scaly, and 

 tapering gradually towards the point. He was 

 only about six inches and a half high, and at a 

 distance resembled a terrier, his head being much 

 like that of a dog. His eyes were small, the 

 edges of the eyebrows black, and above the eye 

 were several hairs more than an inch long : he 

 had also similar hairs near his ears, and his 

 whiskers were black, and about an inch and a 

 half long. 



The hair on the body is woolly, of a dirty white 

 at the bottom, and dark brown mingled with 

 black at the ends. From the middle of the back 

 to the tail is a kind of mane of coarse black 

 hairs, which are also sprinkled over the thighs. 

 The sides and belly are of a yellowish white, in- 

 clining to yellow pn the shoulders, neck, breast, 

 and head, and the legs and feet are of a blackish 

 brown. Each foot is furnished with five toes, a 

 litlle bent, like those of a rat; the thumb (as it 

 is called) on the hind-feet is broad, thick, and 

 placed at a distance from the toes, as in apes; 

 but on the fore-feet it is not separate from them: 

 the thumb nails are flat, while those on the other 

 oes are crooked, and extend beyond the points. 



M. de la Borde observes, that these animal* 



