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LORIS. 
Lemur Loris. L. ecaudatus suhferrugineo-cinereus y ariubus gracil- 
limis, auri culls magnls. 
Tailless Lemur of a subferruginous ash-rolour. with extremely 
slender limbs and large ears. 
Animal cynocephalum ceilonicum. Seb, nius. l. p. 55. /. 35. 
Le Loris. Buff. 13. //. 30. 
Loris Macauco. Pennant ^adr. p. 228. 
By a singular fatality it has happened that this 
species^ though perfectly distinct from the for- 
mer^ and in manners totally different, has yet 
been confounded with it by many writers on Na- 
tural History. It is considerably smaller than" 
the former; its body is slender; its limbs remark- 
ably thin ; and it is, like the former, perfectly 
destitute of a tail; and this circumstance seems to 
have caused the general mistake among natural- 
ists. It is said, by those who have contemplated 
it in its native climate, to be a perfect contrast to 
the former in its motions ; being possessed of great 
agility and liveliness. In colour it nearly resem- 
bles the former species, but is paler, and more 
inclining to a yellow tinge. It is very elegantly 
figured in Seba's Thesaurus. At first view of the 
figure one would be apt to imagine that it had 
been taken from a dried specimen, in which the 
limbs had shrunk from their former or natural 
dimensions ; but the several specimens preserved 
in Museums, in whatever manner prepared, con- 
firm the truth of the representation; the same 
