RING-TAILED MAUCAUCO. 
such Other animals as are a few links farther 
removed in the great chain which connedls, 
by so many nice gradations, the almost infi- 
nite varieties of animated nature. These, in- 
deed, feed themselves with their fore-paws, 
but can hold nothing in one of them singlv, 
and are obliged to take up whatever they eat 
in both at once. 
But, though in the conformation of the 
Maucauco's hands, it nearly approaches- the 
monkey kind ; in other respe6^:s, such as the 
make of the snout, the form of the ears, and 
the parts that distinguish the sexes, it entirely 
differs. 
Of these animals there are many different 
kinds ; all varying from each other in colour 
or size, but agreeing in the human-like figure 
of the hands and feet, and in the nose's some- 
what resembling that of a dog or fox. 
BufFon seems to treat them all as a hideously 
disgusting race of animals, not surpassed in 
ugliness by the worst grimaces of the baboon. 
We can fecl.no sufficient reason for this idea, 
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