FLYING COLUGO. 
been imagined: especially, when we reflect 
that, among other similitudes, the tongue, ac- 
cording to Dr. Pallas, is fleshy, broad, round- 
ed, attenuated on the edges, and ciliated with 
papillae, as in the Opossums : it is, also, he 
adds, slightly beset with papillae on it's surface. 
Mr. Geoffroy, who seems to have examined 
with peculiar minuteness and accuracy the 
specimens of this genus in the Museum of 
the Prince of Orange, observes that this ani- 
mal, in the form and disposition of the teeth, 
differs not only from the Lemurs, but from ail 
other quadrupeds.. He is also of opinion, that 
the foremost of those teeth which Dr. Pallas 
considers as canine, should in truth be consi- 
dered as cutting teeth; since, as he observes, 
they are inserted into the incisive or intermax- 
illary bone. Indeed, all the teeth, taken to- 
gether, are of so anomalous a cast as to make 
it difficult to discover the par.icular intention 
of Nature in their formation: but Mr. Geof- 
froy inclines to think that they are best calcu- 
lated for feeding on insects, though the animal 
k usually described as subsisting on fruits. 
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