100 FLOCKY LEMUR. 



Macauco are described and figured in the supple 

 ment to Buffon, viz. 



Le Petit Makis Gris. Buff, suppl. p. 12i.pl 34. 



This pretty little animal,, says the Count de Ce- 

 pede, was brought from Madagascar, by Mons. 

 Sonnerat. It has the whole body,, except the 

 face, feet, and hands, covered with a greyish 

 woolly fur, thick and soft to the touch. Its tail 

 is very long and covered with fur similar to that 

 of the body. It is much allied to the Macauco, 

 both in its form and attitudes, as well as in the 

 nimbleness of its motions; but the Macauco stands 

 higher on its legs. In both the fore legs are 

 shorter than the hind. The colour of this little 

 Lemur is, as it were, marbled with pale tawny; 

 the fur being mouse-grey at the roots, and pale 

 tawny at the extremities. The fur on the upper 

 part of the body is six lines long, and four on the 

 under part. The whole under part is white from 

 the lower jaw; but the white is a little mingled 

 with yellowish and greyish on the belly and un- 

 der parts of the limbs. The head is very large 

 in front, and the snout is very pointed, which 

 gives a great sharpness to the physiognomy of 

 the animal: the forehead is straight; the eyes 

 round and full : the ears are nine lines high, and 

 seven broad : they differ from those of other Ma- 

 caucos, which are large, and, as it were, flattened 

 at the ends. Those of this little species are large 

 at the base, and rounded in outline : they are cok 



