MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Maucauco. 83 



are of a faffron or orange colour ; the claws on the thumbs, fingers, and toes, are narrow and fharp 

 pointed, and thofe on the great toes are flat and rounded. This is a beautiful, lively animal, and 

 cafily tamed, but too delicate for the climate of Europe ; its body and limbs are finely proportioned ; 

 it walks on four feet, and the body and head together are only feven or eight inches long, with the 

 tail of double that length: The head, body, and tail, are covered with foft, blackilh-brown hair; and 

 the hands and feet with fhort orange coloured hair ; the face is of a duflcy flefh colour, having the 

 upper lip divided, nearly like that of a hare ; the ears arc fquare, large, naked, and of the fame co- 

 lour with the face. 



III. MAUCAUCO.— 3. LEMUR. 3. 



Has four cutting teeth in the upper jaw, with a fpace between 

 the two foremoft and the other two ; in the lower jaw are 

 fix, which are longer than thofe in the upper; they arc ex- 

 tended forwards, compreffed, parallel, and clofe fet; on each 

 fide in both jaws there are fingle tufks, which ftand clofe 

 to the other teeth ; there are feveral grinders, which are 

 foniewhat knobbed, and the foremoft of thefe are longer 

 and fharper pointed than the others. The feet are formed 

 like hands. 



This genus forms a kind of link between the race of Apes and the ferocious quadrupeds, having 

 the flat nails of the former, combined with the crooked claws of the latter ; and, except in the hand- 

 like ufe of the paws, having no refemblance to mankind. All the fpecies of this genus, except one 

 which is very little known, inhabit the torrid regions of Alia and Africa. 



85 1. Loris. — I. Lemur tardigradus, 1. 



Has no tail, and Is of a pale rufty brown or tawny colour. Schreber, i. 134. tab. xxxviii. 



Ape, fimia, having a long, crooked, fharp, claw on the toe of each hind paw next the great toe. 

 BrifT. quad. 190. n. 3. — Dog-headed ape, having a long, fharp, crooked, claw on each index, or 

 fore finger, and toe. BrifT. quad. 191. n. 2. — Little dog-headed animal, named Sloth in Ceylcn. 

 Seba Muf. i. 55. t. 35. — Ceylon cercopithecus, or, as it is called, Larger Sloth. Seba Muf. i. 75. 

 t. 47. f. 1. — Loris. Sm. Buff. viK 231. pi. cexxx. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 129. 



Inhabits the ifland of Ceylon. — An active animal, having a moft acute fenfe of hearing : It is about 

 the fize of a fquirrel ; of a pale brown or rufty colour, with a whitifh throat, and having a white line 

 on the head pointing to the fpace between the eyes ; the face is covered with hair ; the ears are large, 

 thin, rounded, and garniihed on the infide with two auricles ; the palms of the hands and ibles of 

 the feet are naked -, the nails are rounded, except on the index of the hind paw, which has a fharp 



L 2 pointed 



