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considerably lonjrer tban the body. The fur red- 

 dish brown, mixed with pale yellow on the back. 

 Is extremely active, and appears to delight in fre- 

 quenting the banks of rivers. 



M* fiaimtnnus, Syiionime, Slmia ncmeMrina 

 Lin,) 



The Brown baboon. Beard thin— Byes hazel 

 Hannches naked -Tail short and i>leuder, reach- 

 ing only to the middle of the thigh. 



The color of the fur i*; grey, deepening into 

 brown on the back, dorsal line and middle of the 

 head black The face naked and tawny, nose 

 fiat and lips thin. About two feet high. The 

 Brown baboon is extremely ugly, but intelligent, 

 lively, and tractable, and susc'tptible of a consi- 

 derable degree of instruction, easily learning to 

 perform a variety of tricks. It is very abundant 

 in the Peninsula. 



1'he Lemurs in their form approach to that of 

 the quadrupeds, but the shape of the hands and 

 head is somewhat similar to that of the preced- 

 ing fiixnily of the Quadrumana, between whom 

 and the quadrupeds, nature appears to have de- 

 signed them to be, as it were, a connecting link. 

 Most of them are nocturnal in their habits, from 

 which circunifilance and their disgusting appear- 

 ance LinnoBus designated them Lemures, or 

 ghosts. 



There are seven tribes of them, but only one, 

 that r am aware of, is io be found in the Malay- 

 an Peninsula, %iz; The Nycticebus, Geoff.^(Sy- 

 nonimes, Lemur, Un,—-Lorh, Cuv, 



iV. Jiwamcus, Geoff. Desm. Javanese lory. 

 The animals of this genus have a long body with 



