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LONG-FINGERED LEMUR. 



Lemur Psilodactylus. L. cinereo-ferrugineus, cauda 'vilhsissima, 



digito palmarum medio longissimo nudo. 

 Ash-ferruginous Lemur, with extremely villose tail, and the 



middle finger of the fore feet very long and naked. 

 Aye Aye. Sonnerat <voy. aux Indes, or. 2. p. 142. //. 88. 



Buff, suppl. 7. p. 268. pi. 68. 

 Aye Aye Squirrel. Pennant Quadr. 2. p. 142. 

 Lemur Psilodactylus. Schreber suppl. 



This highly singular species has so much the 

 general appearance of a Squirrel, that it has been 

 referred to that genus, both by Mr. Pennant in 

 the last edition of his History of Quadrupeds, and 

 by Gmelin in his enlarged edition of the Sys- 

 tenia Naturae of Linnaeus. The account, how- 

 ever, given by Mons. Sonnerat, its first describer, 

 seems to prove it a species of Lemur. Mr. Son- 

 nerat observes, that it seems allied to the Ma- 

 caucos, the Squirrels, and the Monkies. It mea- 

 sures from fourteen to eighteen inches from the 

 nose to the tail, which is about the same length. 

 The general colour of the animal is a pale ferru- 

 ginous-brown, mixed with black and grey : on the 

 head, round the eyes, and on the upper parts of 

 the body, the ferruginous-brown prevails, with a 

 blackish cast on the back and limbs: the tail is 

 entirely black : the sides of the head, the neck, 

 the lower jaw, and the belly, are greyish: there 

 are also a kind of woolly hairs of this colour, and 

 of two or three inches in length, scattered over 

 the whole body : the thighs and legs have a red- 



