THE TAILLESS MAUCAUCO. 



Generic Characters. 

 Six cutting teeth, and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Feet formed like hands. 

 Vifage lharp, pointed like a Fox. 



Synonims. 

 Lemur tardigradus, Lin. Syfl. 44. 



SlMIA UNGUIBUS INDICIS PEDUM POSTERIORUM LONGIS, INCURVIS, ET 



acutis, Brijfon Quad. 134. 

 Animalculum ctnocephalum, Ceylonicum, Seb. Mus. I. tab. 35. 

 Cercopithecus, Ceylonicus, Klein Quad. 86. 

 Animal elegantissimum, Robinfoni, Raii Syn. Quad. 161. 

 Le Loris, de Buffon, xiii. 210. 



THIS animal is lixteen inches long, from the nofe to the rump. The head 

 is fmall, and the nofe lharp pointed ; the ears fhort ; the eyes furrounded firh: 

 by a white circle, and then by a black one ; the fpace between them is white : 

 a dark ferruginous line extends from the top of the head along the middle 

 of the back to the rump, it is bifurcated on the forehead, and each divilion, 

 joining to the black circle which furrounds the eyes, makes the animal look 

 as if it wore fpecT:acles : the toes are deflitute of hair, and furnimed with flat 

 nails, except the inner toe of each hind foot, the nails of which are long, 

 lharp, and crooked : the body is covered all over with foft, fhort, and lilky 

 fur, of a reddilh afh-colour : it is very inactive and flow in its motions, and, 

 in thefe particulars, refembles the Sloth, though it differs from it elfentially 



