THE RINGTAIL MJUCAUCO. 



Generic Characters. 

 Six cutting and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Feet formed like hands. 

 Vifage Iharp pointed like a Fox. 



Synonims. 

 Lemur catta, Linn. Syjl. 45. 

 Le Mococo, de Bujfon, xiii. 173. tab. xxii, 

 Maucauco, Edw. 197. 

 Mocavvk, Graft's Voy. 41. 

 Prosimia cinerea, Briffbn Quad. 157. 

 Vari, Flacourfs Hift, Madag. 153. 



THIS animal is the moll beautiful and elegant of the tribe to which it 

 belongs ; it is about the lize of a Cat, but the body and limbs are longer and 

 more llender ; the top and hind part of the head are covered with hair of a 

 dark am colour ; the back and fides incline more to red ; the limbs are of a 

 paler colour on the outfide, and white within ; the belly is white ; the end 

 of the nofe is black ; the ears are large and erecl: ; the face white, with a 

 black circle round each eye ; the hair is all of a delicate foft contexture, very 

 fmooth to the touch, and Handing almolt erecl: like the pile of velvet ; the 

 hinder legs are confiderably longer than thofe before, which caufes it to ufe a 

 kind of galloping motion ; the toes are furnifhed with flat nails, particularly 

 the thumbs on the hind feet. The tail is twice the length of the body, and 

 highly beautiful and ornamental, being marked all the length of it with 

 black and white rings placed alternately ; it is raifed over its back, and kept 



