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cheeks and the sides of the forehead are grey. There is considerable individual 

 variation in the width of the black band across the head. 

 White-fronted The white-fronted lemur {L. albijrons) appears to be restricted 



Lemur. ^o the north-east coast of Madagascar. It is mainly distinguished 

 from the allied species by its colour ; its most distinctive feature being a broad 

 band of white woolly hairs extending across the forehead, and including the base 

 of the eai's, the cheeks, and part of the throat and neck. The prevailing colour of 

 the back and flanks is a grizzled brown, tinged with red ; the long muzzle and 

 face, together with the hands and feet, and the end of the tail being black. The 

 under-pai-ts and inner surfaces of the limbs are whitisii-grey. This prettj- lemur 



THE jinxGoosE LEMUit (! uat. .size). 



was first described by the French naturalist Geoft'roy St. Hilaire ; and was exhibited 

 in the London Zoological Gardens as far back as 1830. 

 Black-fronted This (i. nicjrifrons) is another closely allied lemur, also first made 

 Lemur. known to .science by the naturalist last mentioned. In comparing it 

 with the preceding species, E. T. Bennett, who had the ojiportunity of seeing living 

 examples of both, observes that " their size, it is true, is nearly- equal, and there is 

 little if anj' difference in their form : but their colours, invariable as we have 

 hitherto found them, furnish suftieit-nt ground for regarding them as distinct. The 

 present animal has the elongated muzzle of the last, but the black colour embraces 

 in it the forehead and sides of the face, as well as the base of the muzzle ; and 

 the hair on the former parts, instead of being long and woolly, is short, smooth, 

 and even. While the black is thus extended backwards over the head, it is bounded 

 on the fore part of the muzzle, which instead of being uniform in colour, as in the 



