MURINE LEMUR. 107 



Simla Syrichta: the figures of Camelli, which we 

 have added to the description of that animal, ap- 

 pearing to possess the character of a Lemur ra- 

 ther than of a genuine Simia: but this must be 

 considered as a matter of doubtful speculation. 

 It should be added, that the Rat de Madagascar 

 of Buffon is said to have been a fierce untameable 

 little animal ; and that it was kept some years in 

 France, generally residing in a warm room, and 

 feeding on almonds, &c. 



Mr. Miller's Figure in the Cimelia Physica is 

 still smaller, not exceeding a half-grown rat in 

 size: it is an animal of great beauty: the general 

 colour is a most elegant pale-grey: the insides of 

 the ears and orbits of the eyes flesh-coloured : the 

 e} 7 es bright hazel, and the tail bright ferruginous. 

 The whole animal is well covered with fur. The 

 tail is thickly furred, and still more so towards the 

 extremity. When sleeping it rolls itself up, as 

 expressed in the plate. 



Mr. Pennant, in a letter to myself, some time 

 before the publication of the last edition of his 

 History of Quadrupeds, expresses a doubt whe- 

 ther this animal may not be the same with the 

 preceding, or a sexual difference; since it seems to 

 agree in almost all particulars except the colour of 

 the tail; and, on farther consideration, I am in- 

 clined to think that this circumstance is, in realit} T , 

 no objection against the identity of the two ani- 

 mals, the tail in that figured in Brown's Illustra- 

 tions of Zoology being described and represented 

 as of a pale subferruginous-brown. 



