86 MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Maucauco. 



The Mongous inhabits the iflands of Madagafcar and Johanna, and the neighbouring countries of 

 Africa. — The feveral varieties of this fpecies, which are enumerated from Dr Gmelin's edition of the 

 Syftema Naturae, feem all to referable each other very much, and to differ chiefly in fize and colour 

 from each other. In all of them the toes next the great toes, on the hind paws, are furnifhed with 

 long narrow fharp claws. 



The variety which the Count de Buffon defcribes, enumerated above under the name of Brown 

 Mongous, had long iilky hair, rather flicrt, and fomewhat curled, and entirely brown ; the eyes are 

 yellow, the muzzle black, and the ears fliort ; the tefticles are very large, and the tongue very rough : 

 It was extremely brilk in its movements, petulant, very nafty, and fond of fruits, fugar, and fweet- 

 meats; while in confinement, it eat oft four or five joints from its own tail; it emitted almoft perpetu- 

 ally a low grunting voice, and, when tired of foiitude, croaked very loudly like a frog : The tail is very 

 long and bufhy, carried erect, and curved fomewhat in the manner of the fquirrels. The one repre- 

 fented in pi. ccxxviii. of the Count de Buffon's work, feems to have a whitifh or grey throat; the 

 unuzzle, from between the eyes to the point, is long, black, and narrow, with a number of long hairs 

 over the eyes, and on each fide of .the mouth. 



6. Vari. — 5, Lemur Macaco. 3. 



Has long hair round the fides of the neck and throat, like a ruff; and a long taiL 

 Ruffed maucauco. Perm. hilt, of quad. 11. 132. — Vari. Sm, BufF. vii. 228. pi. ccxxix. 



95 a. Black Vari. — 3. a. L. Macaco niger. 



The whole body is of a uniform black colour. Schreber, i. 142. tab. xl. A, 

 Black maucauco. Edw. av. v. t. 217. 



96 |8. Brown Vari. — 3. &. L. Macaco fufcus. 



The whole body is uniformly brown. 



Brewn lemur, having a bufhy tail. Gronov. zooph. 22. 



97 y. White Vari. — 3. y. L, Macaco alius. 



Of a uniformly white colour. 



Antavarre, entirely white. Cauche, Madagafc. 127. 



98 %. Pied Vari. — 3. /• L. Macaco variegatus. 



The body is mixed with black and white in patches. Schreber, i. 142. tab. xl. B. 

 Vericaffi, or Varicoffi. Flacourt, voy. 153 Vari. Sm. Buff. vii. pi. ccxxix. 



The feveral varieties of this fpecies inhabit the fame countries with the Mongous. — The variety, 

 reprefented in the plate of the Count de Buffon's Natural Hiftory, is moftly white in the body; all 

 the paws, the fore-head, the tail, the infides of the thighs, a large blotch on each flioulder, and a long 

 narrow patch on the loin before the upper part of the thigh, are black ; the nail on the inner toe of 



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