MAUCAUCOS (LEMUR). 



These are placed on the branch of a tree, near the 

 third window. They are generally mild and gentle 

 in their disposition, and inhabit the warmer parts of 

 India. 



1. Slow Lemur, or Tailless Maucauco (Lemur Tar- 

 diradus). 



About half the size of a cat, and is a native of the 

 coast of Coromaudel. According to the pleasing 

 description of the late learned Sir Wm. Jones, in the 

 4th volume of Asiatic Researches, its manners are 

 gentle and interesting ; it sleeps during the day, and 

 feeds on fruits. 



2. Woolly Lemur, ov Mongoz (Lemur Mongoz). 

 About the size of a cat, is a native of Madagascar, 



feeds on fruits, and in a state of captivity is sportive 

 and harmless. 



.S. The Potto (Lemur Potto). 

 This is an inhabitant of Guinea. 



4. Ring-tailed Lemur, or Maucauco (Lemur Catta). 



This is a very beautiful, gentle, harmless, and en- 

 tertaining animal, frequently kept tame by ladies ; it 

 is a native of the warmer parts of India, and feeds on 

 fi'uit, which it eats sitting upright, and holding in its 

 fore paws. The young ones were lately bred in thil 

 country. 



5. Little Maucauco (Lemur Minutus). 



Is about the size of a mouse ', is an elegant Uttl« 



