THE 



SLOW- PACED LEMUR. 



Generic Character. 



Six Cutting Teeth, and two Canine Teeth in each 



jaw. 

 Vifage (generally) fharp-pointed. 

 Feet formed like hands, in the manner of apes. 



Specific Character, &c. 



TAIL-LESS LEMUR, of a fubferruginous afli- 

 colour, with a brown dorfal line. 



TAIL-LESS MACAUCO. 



Pennant. Hiji. Qiuidr. p. 212. 



This curious animal is fomctimes improperly regard- 

 ed as a fpecies of Sloth, and has been called the Cey- 

 lon Sloth ; but it is not in the lead allied to that ge- 

 nus, and has only been fo named from the flowncfs of 

 its motions : in which it differs in the in oft ftriking 

 manner from all other fpecies of its own genus, which 

 are animals of the moft lively difpofition, and the moil 

 vivid celerity of motion. Another peculiarity belong- 

 ing to this creature, is the total defeeft of a tail, of which 

 not fo much as a veftige appears. It inhabits the Eaft- 

 Indies, and particularly the ifland of Ceylon. Its fize 



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