THE RINGTAIL MAUCAUCO. 



in continual motion, when it plays ; but when it is alleep, it brings its tail 

 over its head, and its nofe to its belly. It appears to be a harmlefs and 

 gentle animal, ealily to be tamed when young : its cry is weak ; it loves the 

 fociety of its own fpecies, and generally, when wild, they go in troops of 

 thirty or forty together ; it is very cleanly and good natured ; it is a refllefs 

 creature, and like all four-handed animals, moves in an oblique direction, 

 when it walks. It feems to poifefs all the vivacity of the Monkey, without 

 its malice or mifchief. 



This animal is a native of the Mand of Madagafcar, and, according to 

 Flacourt, is fometimes found white ; Cauche in his voyage to Madagafcar (a) 

 alfo Ipeaks of a white kind, which, he fays, grunts like fwine, and is called 

 there Amboimenes. 



(a) P. 53 , cited by Mr. Pennant. 



