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FLOCKY LEMUK. 
Macauco are described and figured in the supple 
ment to Buffon^ viz. 
Le Petit Mak is Gris. Buff, suppl. p. pi 
This pretty Httle animal, says the Count de Ce- 
pede, was brought from Madagascar, by Mons. 
Sonnerat. It has the whole body, except the 
face, feet^ and hands, covered with a greyish 
woolly fur, thick and soft to the touch. Its tail 
is very long and covered Math fur similar to that 
of the bod}^ It is much allied to the Macauco, 
both in its form and attitudes, as well as in the 
nimbleness of its motions ; but the Macauco stands 
higher on its legs. In both the fore legs are 
shorter than the hind. The colour of this little 
Lemur is, as it were, marbled with pale tawny : 
the fur being mouse-grey at the roots, and pale 
tawny at the extremities. The fur on the upper 
part of the body is six lines long, and four on the 
under part. The whole under part is white from 
the lower jaw; but the white is a little mingled 
with yellowish and greyish on the belly and un- 
der parts of the limbs. The head is very large 
in front, and the snout is very pointed, which 
gives a great sharpness to the physiognomy of 
the animal: the forehead is straight; the eyes 
round and full : the ears are nine lines high, and 
seven broad : they differ from those of other Ma- 
caucos, which are large, and, as it were, flattened 
at the ends. Those of this little species are large 
at the base, and rounded in outline : they are co- 
