2IO THE M AHIXIN A. 



of a bright red colour, and thofe on the body 

 and tail are pale yellow, almoft white. This 

 gnimal has the fame manners, the fame vivacity^ 

 and the fame inclinations with the other fagoins. 

 Its conftitution (eeras to be more robuft ; for we 

 have feen one that lived five or fix years in 

 Paris, without any other precaution than keeping 

 it during the winter in a warm room. 



DiftinBive CharaShrs of this Jpecies, 



The mariklna has neither cheek-pouches nor 

 callofities on the buttocks. His tail is flaccid, or 

 not prehenfile,and almoft twice as long as both the " 

 head and body. He has round naked ears, long 

 reddifli hairs around the face, and bright yellow- 

 ifh white hairs, nearly of an equal length, on 

 the reft of the body, with a confiderable tuft at 

 the extremity of the tail. He walks upon four 

 feet • and exceeds not eight or nine inches in 

 length. The female is not fubjedl to the men- 

 fes. 



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