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MURINE LEMUR. 
Lemur Murinus. L. caudatus cimreus, cauda ferruginea, Lin, 
Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 44. 
Long-tailed ash-coloured Lemur, with ferruginous tail. 
Little Lemur. Bronvn Illustr, Zool. p. 108. //. 44. 
' Lemur Murinus. Cimelia Physica. p. zi^. pi. 13. 
Murine Maucauco. Pennant ^adr, \. p. 232. 
Little Maucauco. Pennant ^adr. I./. 233. 
Rat de Madagascar. Buff, suppl. 3, 149. 20. 
This species is extremely well figured in Brown s 
Illustrations of Zoology, from a living specimen 
which was kept some time in England. Its size 
was somewhat less than the black rat; and its co- 
lour is an elegant pale cinereous or grey on the up- 
per parts, and white beneath : the eyes are encir- 
cled by a zone of a deeper colour : the ears are 
large, naked, rounded, and thin : the eyes very 
large and full : the tail is hairy, of the length of the 
body, and prehensile, or capable of coiling at plea- 
sure round any object, as in some of the small mon- 
kies : the toes are rounded at the ends, and have 
also rounded nails, but those on the first toe on 
each hind foot are long and sharp. This, as Mr. 
Pennant observes, seems to be the same animal with 
that figured in BufFon, under the title of Rat de 
Madagascar; and which is supposed to live in the 
palm-trees, and feed on fruits: it eats, holding its 
food in its fore feet, like a squirrel : has a weak cry, 
and when sleeping rolls itself up. This also is the 
animal which is suspected to have given rise to 
the doubtful species of Monkey, called by Linnaeus 
