38 ANIMALS IN MENAGERIES. 



species differs from the male in having; those parts deep 

 grey, which in the other sex is white. Like all the 

 other genuine lemurs, this remarkable species inhabits 

 the forests of Madagascar ; but nothing has yet reached 

 us relative to its natural history. In speaking of the 

 female, which brought forth and suckled its young at 

 the Garden of Plants, M. Fred. Cuvier observes, that 

 the mother had been remarkable for her gentleness and 

 familiarity previous to this event, for she would con- 

 stantly approach to receive the caresses and lick the hands 

 of her visiters. But after the birth of her young one, 

 she became suspicious, avoided observation, and even 

 menaced those who came near her. In proportion^ 

 however, as her maternal cares ceased to be necessary, 

 this mistrust subsided, and she gradually, towards the 

 end of the third month, regained her former gentleness 

 and famiharity. It was curious, during the latter part of 

 this time, to watch the timidity of the young one, who 

 now would occasionally quit its mother, and move 

 about the cage by itself; but the slightest noise, or the 

 appearance of a stranger, would prompt it immediately 

 to seek the only security it knew of, and it hastened to 

 take shelter, and almost hide itself, in the warm fur of 

 its mother. 



The colour of the male (which is the Angouan of 

 Geoffroy), is of a grizzled brown, tinged with reddish, 

 becoming nearly black on the hinder part of the head. 

 The face and ears are encircled by a broad white band 

 of woolly hairs which meet across the forehead ; and 

 this white colour extends to the neck and inner sides of 

 the fore legs : the muzzle and paws are purplish black : 

 one third of the tail, towards its extremity, is also black ; 

 the rest resembling the colour of the body. In the 

 female, which seems to be the Lennir coUaris or Maki 

 d'Anjouan of Geoffroy, the sides of the face are iron 

 grey, and the general colour somewhat lighter.* There 

 appears, however, to be still some confusion on this 



* Zool. Card. x. 30Q. 



