BLACK MAUCAUCO. 
longer: and he has a kind of rufF, or cravat, 
of still longer hair, which surrounds his neck, 
and forms a very distindl character, by vs^hich 
he is easily known. In colour, he varies, 
from white to black, or pied; and his hair, 
though long and very soft, stands almost per- 
pendicular to the skin. His muzzle is larger, 
and proportionably longer, than that of the 
Maucauco. His ears are much shorter, and 
fringed with long hairs. His eyes are of so 
deep an orange colour, that they appear to 
to be red." After observing, that the Mau- 
cauco, the Mongous, and the Vari, belong to 
the same country ; and seem to be confined to 
■ Madagascar, Mosambique, and the lands ad- 
jacent to those islands ; BuiFon quotes, from F. 
Cauche's Account of Madagascar, as follows 
— " In the province of Melagasse, in Mada- 
gascar, the different species of Monkles are 
extremely numerous. Some of them are 
brown, with woolly hair ; and a long bushy 
tail, which they raise above their backs, and 
form with it a shade to • prote6l themselves 
from the sun and rain. In this manner they 
sleep, like the Squirrels, on the branches 
of trees. Besides, they have round ears, and 
a muzzle 
