OR SLOW-PACED LEMUK. 1^9 



ed, pointed ; hair very thick, especially on the 

 haunches, extremely soft, mostly dark grey, varied 

 above with brown and a tinge of russet -, darker 011 

 the back, paler about the face and under the throat, 

 reddish towards the rump j no tail, a dorsal strr 

 broad, chesnut-coloured, narrower towards the neck ; 

 a head almost spherical ; a countenance expressive 

 and interesting;, eyes round, large, approximated, 

 weak in the day-time, glowing and animated at nig. , 

 a white vertical stripe between them; eye-lashes bla. 

 short ; ears da-rk, rounded, concave ; great acuteness 

 at night, both in seeing and hearing ; a face hairy, 

 flattish ; a nose pointed, not much elongated ; the up- 

 per lip cleft ; canine-teeth, comparatively long, very 

 sharp. 



More than this I could not observe on the living 

 animal ; and he died at a season when I could nei- 

 ther attend a dissection ot his body, nor with pro- 

 priety request any of my medical friends to perform 

 such an operation during the heats of August ; but i 

 opened his jaw and counted only two incisors above, 

 .and as many below, which might have been a defect 

 in the individual; and it is mentioned simply as a 

 fact, without any intention to censure the generic ar- 

 ran gem e n t of L 1 n x al u s . 



II. In his manners he was for the most part gentle, 

 except in the cold season, when his temper seemed 

 wholly changed ; and his Creator, who made him so 

 sensible of cold, to which he must often have been 

 exposed even in his native forests, gave him, : 

 bly for that reason his thick for, Which we rarely 



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