83 MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Maucauco. 



Inhabits South America. — The head refembles that of a bull-dog; and all the toes and fingers 

 have narrow {harp claws. 



*°2 10. Curly Maucauco. — 9. Lemur laniger, 10. 



Has a tail: Is of a reddifh-yellow brick-dull: colour on the upper parts of the body, and 

 white on the under parts ; and the tail is of a uniform tawny red. 

 Macquis a bourres. Sonneret, It. ii. 142. t. 89. 



Inhabits Madagafcar — -The body and head are about twenty-one inches long, and the tail nine *, 

 the hair is very foft, and curled; the loins are of a reddifh tawny colour; the face black ; the ears are 

 fmall; the eyes large, and of a greenifh grey colour: It has only two fore-teeth in the upper, and four 

 in the lower jaw ; the paws have all five toes, of which the thumbs and great toes have flat rounded 

 nails, and all the reft pointed claws. 



103 , 11. Podje. — Lemur Podje. 



Has remarkably long and flender hind legs, efpecially from the heel to the toes j and 

 a long flender tail. 



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Tarfier. Sm. Buff. vii. 171. pi. ccxvi. Penn. hill, of quad. n. 133.. 



Inhabits the remoteft parts of India, efpecially in the ifle of Amboina Has a long pointed vifage, 



with a flender muzzle, which is two-lobed at the end ; the eyes are large and prominent ; the ears 

 creel, broad, naked, femitranfparent and long, having a tuft of long hair between them on the top of 

 the head ; on each fide of the nofe, and on the upper eye-hrows, there are long hairs ; it has only 

 two fore-teeth, and two tulks, in each jaw; there is a diftincT: thumb, and four flender toes, on each 

 foot ; the great toes are broad, and furnifhed with flat rounded nails, but all the other toes and fin- 

 gers have fhort lharp claws ; the penis is pendulous, and the fcrotum very large ; the length, from 

 muzzle to rump, is fix inches ; thence to the ground, when ftanding, eleven inches and a half; the 

 tail is nine and a half inches long; the hair on the body is long, foft, and woolly; the head is afh- 

 coloured, -the refl of the body tawny, mixed with afli colour ; the hair on the legs is fhort, white, 

 and thin; the tail is almoft naked and fcaly for the greater part of its length, and is tufted at the end. 

 This animal is defcrihed by Mr Pennant from two fpecimens in the mufeum of Dr Hunter, and in 

 the Lcverian Mufeum. 



104 12. Prehenfile Maucauco. — Lemur prehenji lis. 



Has a long prehenfile tail. 



Little maucauco. Penn. hill, of quad. n. 134. Brown's illuft. of zool. 108. tab. xliv. — Madagaf- 

 car rat. Sm. Buff. viii. 284. pi. ccxcv. 



Inhabits the ifland of Madagafcar. — Is rather lcfs than a common black rat; the head is rounded, 

 wii,h a fharp muzzle, and long whiikers ; the ears are large, roundifh, naked, and thin ; the eyes are 

 large and full ; the toes are long and unequal, with round ends, and fhort rounded nails, and a fharp 

 long claw on the inner toe of the hind paw ; the tail is hairy, as long as the body, and prehenfile ; 

 the upper part of the body is cinereous, the lower parts are white, and the fpace round the eyes is 



dark 



