FLYING COLUGO. 
These different names, it is to be observed, 
include two species, or rather varieties ; which 
are not always easy to discriminate in the va- 
rious accounts. Perhaps, from some of the 
above denominations, Buffon might be induced 
to consider these animals as merely varieties 
of his Vampyre, or Spectre. It is, indeed, 
impossible to deny their great affinity. 
We have observed, in our account of the 
Flyhig Maucauco, that this animal is said to 
be called by the Indians Caguang, Colugo, 
snd Gigua. Bontius, by whom it seems to 
have been first described in his History of 
Java, informs us that these animals are found 
at Guzuiat ; that they are gregarious, and 
fly principally in the evening; that their bo- 
dies, which are about the size of a Cat, are 
covered on the upper part with a soft grey 
fur like that of a Rabbit ; that their heads are 
oblong, and their ears small and round ; that 
they have five strong claws on each foot, by 
which they firmly hold whatever they fix on; 
and, that they feed chiefly on fruits. 
in CameUTs enumeration of the animals of 
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