SLOW LEMUR. 85 
lively species the Ring-tailed Lemur or Macauco^ 
which exhibits the utmost vivacity in its manners 
and motions. 
The late learned and accomplished Sir William 
Jones has also given a pleasing general descrip- 
tion of this animal in the 4th volume of Asiatic 
Researches, and as it is always interesting to 
observe the manners of an animal in its native 
country, I shall here extract the account in the 
President's own words. 
The singular animal^ which most of you saw 
alive, and of which I now lay before you a per- 
fectly accurate figure^ has been very correctly de- 
scribed by Linnaeus; except that sickled would 
have been a juster epithet than awled for the bent 
claws on its hinder indices ; and that the size of a 
Squirrel seems an improper^ because a variable^ 
measure: its configuration and colours are parti- 
cularized with great accuracy by M. Daubenton; 
but the short account of the Loris by M. de Buf- 
fon appears unsatisfactory, and his engraved re- 
presentation of it has little resemblance to na- 
ture*^; so little, that, when I was endeavouring to 
find in his work a description of the Quadrumane, 
which had just been sent me from Dacca, I passed 
over the chapter on the Loris, and ascertained it 
merely by seeing, in a note, the Linnaean charac- 
* Because in reality it represents the next species, or Loris ^ which 
at that time was confounded, by BufFon and many other writers, 
with the present animal 5 though differing much in proportion and 
manners. 
