BLACK MAUCAUCO. 
now living, (A. D. 1755) and is the property 
of Mr. Critington, Clerk to the Society of 
Surgeons, London, who favoured me with the 
use of it at my own house, to take a drawing 
^t my leisure. It seemed to be a feeder on 
vegetables : while I had it, it eat cakes, bread 
and butter, and summer fruits ; it being in 
July. I did not try it with flesh meat. It sits 
up like a Monkey, when it feeds ; holding it's 
food in it's fore paws, or hands." 
To this, which is the whole account pub- 
lished'by Edwards, whose exquisite figure we 
have also taken, may be added, what Pennant .- 
remarks, " that the colour of the vv^hole ani» 
mal is black, but not always ; being sometimes 
white, spotted with black: but the feet are 
black. They inhabit Madagascar; are very ' 
fierce in a wild state ; and make so violent a 
noise in the woods, that it is easy to mistake 
the noise of two for that of a hundred. When 
tamed, they are very gentle and good-natured. 
The hind thighs, and legs, are very long; 
which makes their pace sideling, and bound-, 
ing." 
