RING-TAILED MAUCAUCO. 
By some naturalists, the Maucauco is called 
the Macauca, and by others the Mococo. 
Goldsmith uses this latter appellation ; and he, 
with several others, describes it as a branch 
only of the Maki family, or those animals 
which approximate nearest to the Monkey 
race. 
The Maucauco, however, a name which wc 
shall adopt for the generic title, forms a dis- 
tmS: genus of animals of the Lemur tribe, 
in the Linnaean distribution of nature. 
This genus, of which there are several spe- 
cies, is characterised by Linnaeus,, as having, 
six cutting and twa canine teeth in each jaw;, 
a sharp-pointed visage^ like that of the fox;^ 
and feet formed like tlie human hands. 
It's hands, too, it uses, like the monkey, 
[singly, for gathering or holding it's food; 
[whicli is not the case with tb« squirrel, and 
such- 
