LONG-FINGERED LEMUR. 
mal is from fourteen to eighteen inches long, 
exclusive of the tail ; the tail being, usually, 
about the same length as the body and head- 
that it's general colour is a pale ferruginous 
jed, mixed with black and grey; the head, 
round the eyes, and upper part of the body, 
having the ferruginous-brown most prevalent, 
with a blackish or dusky shade on the back 
and limbs — that the tail is covered with long 
hairs, entirely black or dusky at their extremi- 
ties, but white at bottom ; the sides of the 
head, the lower jaw, the neck, and the belly, 
being greyish — that there are, also, a sort of 
woolly hairs of this last colour, and two 
or three inches long, scattered over the entire 
body— that the thighs and legs are of a red- 
dish cast ; growing blackish on the feet, which 
are covered with short hairs — that the head, 
which is shaped somewhat like that of the 
Squirrel, has two cutting-teeth in front of 
each jaw — that the ears are large, round, and 
naked, resembling those of the Bat, and of a 
black colour — that the feet are long, and some- 
■ what similar to those of the Tarsier.; the 
thumbs, or interior toes, of the hind feet, are 
short, :ind furnished with flat round nails, as 
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