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water. In general he was not voracious, but never 

 appeared satiated with grasshoppers ; and passed the 

 whole night, while the hot season lasted, in prowling 

 for them. When a grasshopper, or any insect, alighted 

 within his reach, his eyes, which he fixed on his prey, 

 glowed with uncommon fire ; and, having drawn him- 

 self back to spring on it with greater force, he seized 

 the victim with both his fore-paws, but held it in one 

 of them while he devoured it. For other purposes, 

 and sometimes even for that of holding his food, he 

 used all his paws indifferently as hands, and fre- 

 quently grasped with one of them the higher part of 

 his ample cage, while his three others were severally- 

 engaged at the bottom of it ; but the posture of 

 which he seemed fondest, was to cling with all four of 

 them to the upper wires, his body being inverted ; and 

 in the evening he usually stood erect for many mi- 

 nutes playing on the wires with his ringers, and rapidly 

 moving his body from side to side, as if he had found 

 the utility of exercise in his unnatural state of con- 

 finement. A little before day-break, when my early 

 hours gave me frequent opportunities of observing him, 

 he seemed to solicit my attention ; and if I presented 

 my finger to him, he licked or nibbled it with great 

 gentleness, but eagerly took fruit when I offered it ; 

 though he seldom eat much at his morning repast. 

 When the day brought back his night, his eyes lost their 

 lustie and strength, and he composed himself for a 

 slumber of ten or eleven hours. 



III. The names Jjoris and Lemur will, no doubt, 

 f)e continued by the respective disciples of Buffo * 



and 



