THE SLOW-PACED LEMUR. 
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great distance from each other; short ears, scarcely 
rising through the hair with which they are invested ; 
a rough tongue; nostrils projecting beyond the mouth 
and surrounded by a naked muzzle ; and thumbs widely 
separated from the fingers both on the fore and hinder 
hands. 
Linnaeus confounded both the well authenticated 
species "of this group, the Slender Loris and the pre- 
sent, under the name of Lemur tardigradus. It is 
evident that he had seen them both ; for in the Musseum 
Adolphi Friderici Regis he describes the former from 
one of the specimens previously figured by Seba, and 
in the tenth edition of his Systema gives a short but 
characteristic description of the latter. This was well 
described and figured by Vosmaer in 1770 ; and adopted 
from his book by Buff on in the last of his supplementary 
volumes. In the latter place some curious particulars 
relative to its habits were added from the observations 
of M. D'Obsonville, who afterwards republished them 
together with many other details of a similar kind in 
his interesting Essays. Sir William Jones has also 
given an excellent account of a specimen in his posses- 
sion : and M. John has added some interesting details 
founded on the observation of several individuals. Its 
article in Shaw's Zoology, compiled from Vosmaer and 
Sir William Jones, is enriched by some valuable obser- 
vations on its anatomy from the pen of Sir Anthony 
Carlisle. And latterly Mr. Baird has published, in 
Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, a very full and 
interesting account of an individual brought by himself 
from India. As far therefore as regards its zoological 
characters and manners in captivity, its history may be 
considered as tolerably complete. Of its habits in a 
state of nature we yet know but little. ^ 
The Slow-paced Lemur is an animal of small size, 
scarcely equal to that of a cat. The largest individual 
