120 FLYING C0LUG0. 



Geoffroy is inclined to think them calculated for 

 feeding on insects,, though the animal is usually 

 said to live on fruits. 



With respect to other particulars of this animal, 

 we are informed by Mr. Geoffroy that the coe- 

 cum, in a specimen dissected by Mons. Cuivier, 

 was extremely large and voluminous ; whereas, in 

 the Bat, to which the Colugo may be allowed to 

 bear some affinity, that part is wanting. Dr. 

 Pallas has observed, that the liver is divided into 

 two lobes, of which the right is entire and 

 broader than the left, which is by far the longest, 

 extended downwards, and divided into three seg- 

 ments. 



There are, according to Mons. Geoffroy, two 

 varieties (perhaps sexual differences) of the Co- 

 lugo, viz. one of the colour usually described, 

 viz. cinereous, with transverse darker and lighter 

 undulations ; the other of a fine cinnamon or 

 ferruginous colour, most vivid on the back, and 

 paler beneath, and without any kind of variega- 

 tion. There are also some trifling differences in the 

 teeth of this reddish kind from those of the grey; 

 but they are not such as to enable us to judge 

 whether they are owing to age, or to a specific 

 difference. 



In the Leverian Museum is a fine specimen, in 

 which the grey colour seems to predominate, 

 owing to the very numerous whitish stripes across 

 the back, as described by Camelli. This is the 

 specimen figured in Mr. Penriant's Quadrupeds, 

 and in the present work. Those figured in Seba 



