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The red lemur, is easily tamed, of a gentle disposition, 

 but notwithstanding its great agility, it is habitually me- 

 lancholy and sleepy. It passes the day rolled up, with its 

 head between its legs, and seems never to awake except at 

 the call of hunger. It measures about one foot and an 

 inch from tail to occiput, and its greatest height from the 

 ground is about the same. The tail is nearly twenty inches 

 long. 



The characters of the lemur with white forehead were 

 first given by M. Geoffroi St. Hilaire, and Audebert pub- 

 lished a figure of it in his " Hist. Nat. des Singes," from 

 the stuffed specimen which M. Geoffroi had made use of. 

 The existence of the species thus rested on a single indivi- 

 dual. M. F. Cuvier, in 1816, received two lemurs with 

 white foreheads which were males, and he joined them to 

 two female lemurs, whose heads were entirely of a deep 

 gray, for the purpose of ascertaining if they were of the 

 same species. This fact he considers as clearly established 

 by the conception of one of the females, and lays it down as 

 a rule that the male differs from the female in colour, 

 which he seems to think also holds good for all the species 

 of this sub-genus. 



The general colour of this lemur is a brownish maronne, 

 and the female differs from the male only in having those 

 parts which are white in him of a deep gray. 



The female mentioned by F. Cuvier, brought forth a young 

 one which lived, and thrived very well. Previous to this 

 event she had been extremely gentle and familiar. She 

 would constantly approach to receive the caresses and lick 

 the hands of her visiters. But after the birth of the young 

 one, she became suspicious, avoided every one and even 

 threatened those who came near. This mistrust, however, 

 was weakened by degrees, and her former familiarity re- 

 turned, when her maternal cares ceased to be necessary. 

 This was the case towards the end of the third month. 



Until then these animals were not separated, and if the 



