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RING-TAILED LEMUR. 
Lemur Catta. L. caudatus, cauda alho nigroque annulata* Lin, 
Syst. Nat. p. 45. 
Long-tailed Lemur^ with the tail annulated with black and 
white. 
Mococo. Buff. 13./. 174.//. 22. 
The Maucauco. Ediv.pLic^y. 
Ring- tailed Lemur, Museum Lenjerianwn. No. 6, p. pi. ll» - 
Ring-tailed Macauco. Pennant ^adr. l. p. 230. 
This is by far the most beautiful animal of the 
genus. Its size is that of a small cat, but of a 
more slender shape : its colour is a pale greyish- 
brown^ with a slight cast of" ferruginous on the 
back and outsides of the limbs : the under parts 
of the body are whitish. The nose black: the 
eyes bright orange-hazel^ surrounded by a dis- 
tinct circle of black : the hands and feet black ; 
the fino'crs and toes furnished with round nails. 
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The tail is very long, and beautifully marked 
throughout the whole length with distinct circles 
of black and w^hite : the fur on the whole animal, 
but more particularly on the tail^ is very fine, soft, 
and suberect in its growth^ so as to give a greater 
degTce of thickness to the tail than if it grew in 
a more oblique direction. The manners of this 
species are gentle and lively: it possesses the 
highest degree of activity, and its motions have 
an ease and elegance surpassing almost every 
other quadruped. In their native state these ani- 
mals live in society, and are seen in troops of 
thirty or forty together in the woods, where they 
