FLYING COLUGO. 
The animal here figured under the name of 
the Flying Colugo, is in fact a variety of the 
Flying Maucauco which we formerly described* 
Our figure, on that occasion, was copied from 
Pennant, who had taken it from a dried speci- 
men in the British Museum: the present, from 
Dr. Pallas, was derived from the living ani- 
mal, and first published in the Petersburgh 
Transactions, under the appellation of the 
Galeopithecus* 
The name Galeopithecus, indeed, seems to be 
the agreed denomination of this genus among 
late naturalists ; who now generally call it the 
Galeopithecus Volans, or Flying Colugo. 
Linnaeus, who had no opportunity to exa- 
mine the generical characters of these animals, 
but derived all the knowledge of them which 
he possessed from the figures and descriptions 
of authors, has stationed them in the genus 
Lemur, to which he considered them as most 
nearly allied; but, with a wise precaution, in 
itself 
