MURINE LEMUR. 107 
Simia Syrichta : the figures of Camelli, which we 
have added to the description of that animal, ap- 
pearing to possess the character of a Lemur ra- 
ther than of a genuine Simia; but this must be 
considered as a matter of doubtful speculation. 
It should be added, that the Rat de Madagascar 
of BufFon is said to have been a fierce untameable 
little animah; and that it was kept some years in 
France, generally residing in a warm room, and 
feeding on almonds, &c. 
Mr. Miller s Figure in the Cimelia Physica is 
still smaller, not exceeding a half-grown rat in i 
size : it is an animal of great beauty : the general 
colour is a most elegant pale-grey: the insides of 
the ears and orbits of the eyes flesh-coloured : the 
eyes bright hazel, and the tail bright ferruginous. 
The whole animal is well covered with fur. The 
tail is thickly furred, and still more so towards the 
extremity. When sleeping it rolls itself up, as 
expressed in the plate. 
Mr. Pennant, in a letter to myself, some time 
before the publication of the last edition of his 
History of Quadrupeds, expresses a doubt whe- 
ther this animal may not be the same with the 
preceding, or a sexual difference; since it seems to 
agree in almost all particulars except the colour of 
the tail; and, on farther consideration, I am in- 
clined to think that this circumstance is, in reality, 
no objection against the identity of the two ani- 
mals, the tail in that figured in Brown's Illustra- 
tions of Zoology being described and represented 
as of a pale subfcrruginous-brown. 
