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New species Among the quadrumanous animals he has brought a blacfc 



oi ape. ape of a new species, with its young, and its skeleton; and 



the great slowpaced lemur \le grand fori paresseux]^ also 

 with its skeleton. 



Galeopithecus. You know how rare the flying macauco, or pretended le- 

 mur volans of Linneus, is in collections. Neither Buffon 

 nor Linneus ever saw it. Mr. L. has brought four of differ- 

 ent ages, and two skeletons. The red and the variegated of 

 some recent naturalists are only differences of age. 



Bats, viverrae, He has five or six species of bats, two of which, at 



fells * least, appear new to us; a new weasel ; a new civet; and a 



new species of felis, in size approaching the lynx. 



Skunk. His most curious quadruped in our opinion is a new 



skunk [mouffette], truly belonging to that genus, hitherto 

 supposed peculiar to America, like it striped with white on 

 a black ground, but distinguished from the other species by 

 being without a tail. It is common in the island of Java, 

 and emits when pursued, the same stinking smell as other 

 skunks. 



o . . , He has also a new flying squirrel, a new ichneumon 



ichneumon. scarcely as big as a rat, and a new squirrel ; beside many 

 specimens of the Java squirrel, and of the taguan, or great- 

 est flying squirrel. 



Skeletons. To these he has added the skeleton of a porcupine of Java, 



and those of two musks, which were wanting to your anato- 

 mical collection. 



Birds. Of birds Mr. Leschenault has brought over 130 species, 



which we have not been able to examine with sufficient mi- 

 nuteness to say how many are new. 



W'.ld cocks. There are however two different species of wild cocks, with 



their hens : one was discovered by Sonnerat, the other ap- 



Bird of Para- pears to us new. And we noticed a new bird of Paradise, 



d' se ' black, with a very shining throat, among four other species. 



„ , Of reptiles Mr. L. has brought a superb skeleton of a 



serpent, more than 15 feet [l6f. Eng.] long, worthy a place 

 in the finest collection. A specimen scarcely inferior to it, 

 at least in rarity, is a well preserved skin of the celebrated 

 achrocordus, or warted snake of Java. With these are about 



an sards* 30 other species of snakes, and severallizards ; among which 

 are the gecko of Java, and the blue galeot with its spindle- 

 shaped eggs. 



