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LONG-FINGERED LEMUR. 
Lemur Psilodactylus. L. cinereo-ferrugineus t cauda 'villosissima, 
digito palmarum medio longissimo nudo* 
Ash-ferruginous Lemur, with extremely villose tail, and the 
middle finger of the fore feet very long and naked. 
Aye Aye. Scnnerat njoy, aux Indes, or. 2. p. 142. /»/. 88. 
Buff, suppl. 7. p, 268. pi. 68. 
Aye Aye Squirrel. Pennant ^adr. 2./. 142. 
Lemur Psilodactylus. Schreber suppl. 
This highly singular species has so much the 
general appearance of a Squirrel, that it has been 
referred to that genus both by Mr. Pennant in 
the last edition of his History of Quadrupeds, and 
by Gmelin in his enlarged edition of the Sys- 
tema Naturje of Linnaeus. The account, how- 
ever, given by Mons. Sonnerat, its first describer, 
seems to prove it a species of Lemur. Mr. Son- 
nerat observes, that it seems allied to the Ma- 
caucos, the Squirrels, and the Monkies. It mea- 
sures from fourteen to eighteen inches from the 
nose to the tail, which is about the same length. 
The general colour of the animal is a pale ferru- 
ginous-brown, mixed with black and grey: on the 
head, round the eyes, and on the upper parts of 
the body, the ferruginous-brown prevails^ with a 
blackish cast on the back and limbs: the tail is 
entirely black : the sides of the head, the neck, 
the lower jaw, and the belly, are greyish : there 
are also a kind of woolly hairs of this colour, and 
of two or three inches in length, scattered over 
the whole body : the thighs and legs have a red- 
