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making a noise which has been compared to the clucking of a fowl. 
Like the rest of the subfamily they never have more than a single 
young one at a time. - 
Avahis.1—Second upper incisor larger than the first. Upper 
Fic, 326.—Propithecus coronatus. (From Milne-Edwards and Grandidier, Mammiféres de 
Madagascar, pl. 7.) 
canine scarcely larger than the first premolar. Muzzle very short. 
Ears very small and hidden in the fur, which is very soft and 
woolly. Carpus without an os centrale. Taillong. Vertebre: C 7, 
D 11,1 9, $ 3, € 23. 
One species, -f. laniger, the Woolly Lemur, or Avahis, consider- 
ably smaller than any of the last genus. It differs from them in 
? Jourdan, Mem. de ’Institut, vol. ii. p. 231 (1834). 
