LONG-FINGERED LEMUR, 
We acknowledge ourselves inclined to con- 
sider this singular animal as rather nearer to 
the Sloth, than to any other genus of animals. 
It is •universally agreed to be extremely slow 
in it's motions, as well as mild in it's disposi- 
tion, and to be almost continually asleep. It's 
motion, indeed, lias been resembled to that of 
the Tail-less Maucauco, or Lemur Tardigra- 
I dus ; called the Slow Lemur, on account of it's 
j sluggish movements. Those kept by Sonnerat 
»| were scarcely to be awakened, without first 
i shaking them repeatedly. During the time 
they survived, which was about two months, 
they eat only boiled Rice; which they took 
up with their long fingers, in the same man- 
ner as the Chinese use their eating -sticks. He 
remarked, while he kept these animals, that 
they nevei" set up their tail over the back, like 
a Squirrel, but constantly carried it trailing 
at length. It has, therefore, been observed, 
that the figure given by BufFon, in his Sup- 
plement, is in this respe6l erroneous ; as well 
as in it's not expressing, with dae precision, 
the extreme thinness of the two lono- naked 
£ngers, or toes of the fore-feet. 
■Ou the whole, it seems cleaij that this ani- 
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