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back, paler about the face and under the throat, 

 reddish towards the rump ; no tail ; a dorsal stripe, 

 broad, chesnut-coloured, narrower towards the 

 neck ; a head almost spherical ; a countenance, 

 expressive and interesting; eyes round, large, ap- 

 proximated, weak in the day-time, glowing and 

 animated at night; a white vertical stripe between 

 them; eye-lashes, black, short; ears dark, round- 

 ed, concave ; great acuteness at night, both in see- 

 ing and hearing; a face, hairy, flattish; a nose 

 pointed, not much elongated ; the upper lip cleft ; 

 canine teeth, comparatively long, very sharp. 



1 More than this I could not observe in the liv- 

 ing animal ; and he died at a season when I could 

 neither attend a dissection of his body, nor with 

 propriety request my medical friends to perform 

 such an -operation in the heat of August ; but I 

 opened his jaw, and counted only two incisors 

 above, and as many below, which might have 

 been a defect in the individual; and it is men- 

 tioned simply as a fact, without any intention to 

 censure the generic arrangement of Linnaeus. 



ic II. In his manners he was for the most part 

 gentle, except in the cold season, when his tem- 

 per seemed wholly changed ; and his creator, who 

 made him so sensible of cold, to which he must 

 often have been exposed even in his native fores ts, 

 gave him, probably for that reason, his thick fur, 

 which we rarely see on animals in these tropical 

 climates : to me, who not only constantly fed him, 

 but bathed him twice a week in water accommo- 

 dated to the seasons, and whom he clearly dis- 



