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LORIS. 



Lemur Loris. L. ecaudatus subferrugineo-cinereus , artuhus gracil- 



limis, auric ulis magnis. 

 Tailless Lemur of a subferruginous ash-colour, with extremely 



slender limbs and large ears. 

 Animal cynocephalum ceilonicum. Seb. mus. \. p. 55. t. 35. 

 Le Loris. Bujf'. 13. //. 30. 

 Loris Macauco. Pennant Quadr. p. 228. 



By a singular fatality it has happened that this 

 species, though perfectly distinct from the for- 

 mer, and in manners totally different, has yet 

 been confounded with it by many writers on Na- 

 tural History. It is considerably smaller than 

 the former; its body is slender; its limbs remark- 

 ably thin; and it is, like the former, perfectly 

 destitute of a tail; and this circumstance seems to 

 have caused the general mistake among natural- 

 ists. It is said, by those who have contemplated 

 it in its native climate, to be a perfect contrast to 

 the former in its motions ; being possessed of great 

 agility and liveliness. In colour it nearly resem- 

 bles the former species, but is paler, and more 

 inclining to a yellow tinge. It is very elegantly 

 figured in Seba's Thesaurus. At first view of the 

 figure one would be apt to imagine that it had 

 been taken from a dried specimen, in which the 

 limbs had shrunk from their former or natural 

 dimensions ; but the several specimens preserved 

 in Museums, in whatever manner prepared, con- 

 firm the truth of the representation; the same 



