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FLYING COLUGO. 
GeofFroy is inclined to think them calculated for 
feeding on insects^ though the animal is usually 
said to live on fruits. 
With respect to other particulars of this animal, 
we are informed by Mr. Geoffroy that the coe- 
cum, in a specimen dissected by Mons. Cuivier, 
was extremely large and voluminous ; whereas, in 
the Bat, to which the Colugo may be allowed to 
bear some affinity, that part is wanting. Dr. 
Pallas has observed, that the liver is divided into 
two lobes, of which the right is entire and 
broader than the left, which is by far the longest, 
extended downwards, and divided into three seg- 
ments. 
There are, according to Mons. Geoffroy, two 
varieties (perhaps sexual differences) of the Co- 
lugo, viz. one of the colour usually described, 
viz. cinereous, with transverse darker and lighter 
vmdulations; the other of a fine cinnamon or 
ferruginous colour, most vivid on the back, and 
paler beneath, and without any kind of variega- 
tion. There are also some trifling differences in the 
teeth of this reddish kind from those of the grey; 
but they are not such as to enable us to judge 
whether they are owing to age, or to a specific 
difference. 
In the Leverian Museum is a fine specimen, in 
Avhich the grey colour seems to predominate, 
owing to the very numerous whitish stripes across 
the back, as described by CamelH. This is the 
specimen figured in Mr. Pennants Quadrupeds, 
%nd in the present work. Those figured in Seba 
