MAMMALIA.' PRIMATES. Maucauco. 87 



the foot is fomewhat narrow and pointed, like a claw. The van is fond of fun-lhine, ret always 

 choofes to fleep in a dark place, and preferves its neft very clean. In confinement, it refufes to feed 

 on eggs, flefh, or fifb; and, when eating, growls, with a voice like that of a lion: In a wild ftate it is 

 very fierce, and even dangerous, but when tamed is very gentle and good natured •, it has a prodi- 

 gioufly ftrong voice, like the roaring of a iion, fo that two of them in the woods, by their noife, may 

 be miftaken for a hundred ; this feems owing to a lingular enlargement of the wind-pipe, juft before 

 it fplits into two branches to enter the lungs; the muzzle is long and thick, the cars very fhort, and 

 fringed with long flowing hairs, which join the collar, or hairy rnfF, on the neck, cheeks, and throat; 

 the eyes are of a deep orange colour, almolt red. 



99 7. Ring-tailed Maucauco. — 6. Lemur Catta. 4. 



Has a long, erectly arched, bufhy tail, annulated with alternate bars of bLck and white. 



Afh-coloured Profimia, having the tail furrounded with alternate rings of black and white. BrifT. 



quad. 222. Muf. Ad. Frid- ii. 5. Schreber, i. 143. tab. xli. Herman, naturf, xv. 159. — Madagaf- 



car fquirrel-ape, fimia-fciurus, or maucauco. Edw. av. iv, 197. t. 197. — Maucauco. Sm. Buff", vii. 



225. pi. ccxxvii. — Ring-tail maucauco. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 131. 



Inhabits the iflands of Madagafcar, Mauritius, and Johanna, and the neighbouring continent of 

 Africa. — A gentle animal, living in flocks, which climbs trees, by means of its four paws, like the 

 Apes : It lives on fruits, pot-herbs, and roots, holding its food with the hands ; is rather flow in its 

 motions ; purrs like a cat when pleafed and at reft: Dr Gmelin adds, that the individual in his pof- 

 feffion had a Angular ftructure of the eyes, which he is uncertain whether to confider as natural or 

 accidental; the pupil of the right eye was contracted into a perpendicular flit, like that of a cat, while 

 the left pupil was circular and wide *. All the nails, both of the feet and hands, are flat and round- 

 . ed, without the fharp claw on the index. This is a beautiful animal, of an agreeable afpect, an ele- 

 gant figure, and gentle manners j having a great refemblance to the Monkeys, but without any of 

 their malicious and mifchievous difpofitions ; it has very large eyes, very long hind legs, and a large 

 handfome tail, which is always ercdT:, always waving about, and is ornamented with thirty alternate 

 rings of black and white : When at liberty, it lives in confiderable focieties ; is very filent, uttering 

 only a fhort acute cry when furprifed or irritated ; it fleeps in a fitting pofture, with the muzzle reft- 

 ing on the breaft ; the body is not thicker /than a cat, but is confiderably longer ; the hair, though 

 foft, ftands erecT: ; the male parts are very fmall and concealed. This, and the two former fpecies, 

 have an aukward, oblique gait, but leap well, like all the handed animals. 



100 8. Murine Maucauco. — 7. Lemur murinus. 7. 



Is of an afh colour, with a rutty brown tail. Miller, var. fubj. of nat. hilt. tab. xiii. A- B. 

 Inhabits the ifland of Madagafcar. — All the toes and fingers have flat rounded nails. 



101 9. American Maucauco. — S. Lemur bicohr. 8. 



Has a tail : The upper parts of the body are of a blackifh grey, and the under of a dirty 

 white colour; with a heart ihaped dirty white fpot on the forehead, Miller, var. fubj. 

 tab. xxxii. A. 



Inhabits 

 * Probably the left eye was blind ?— T, 



