TARSIER, 
BUFFON appears to have been the firft de- 
scriber of this aninial. We have adopted his 
figure, and shall give at length the account 
with which it was accompanied. He calls it 
the Tarsier, or Vv^ooUy Jerboa. " V/e ac- 
cidentally," says he, " procured this animal, 
from a person vvho could neither tell it's name, 
nor from whence it came. It is remarkable 
for the excessive leno'th of it's hind lers. The 
bones of the feet, and particularly those 
which compose the upper part of the tarsus, 
'are prodigiously long ; and it is from this 
distinciive charadter, that we have derived 
the name of the animal. The Tarsier, ho\^-- 
ever, is not the only quadruped whose bind 
le2:s are construdled in this manner. The 
tarsus of the Egyptian Jerboa is still longer. 
Hence, the appellation of Tarsier is only 
precarious ; and ought to be changed, as soon 
as we learn the name wdiich the animal re- 
ceives in the country where it is produced. 
'The Jerboa is found in ICgypt, Barbary^ and 
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