TAIL-LESS MAUCAUCO. 
In Smeliie's translation of BufFon, the de- 
scription of our Tail-less Maucauco is ver\'' 
erroneously transferred to the Loris, or Tail-less 
Maucauco, of BufFon, which is a different ani- 
mal of not more than half the size ; being, 
in fact, the Loris, of Schreber, BufFon, Pen- 
nant, and the Leverian Aluseum. This is the 
more extraordinary, as Pennant, in the de- 
scription quoted by Mr. Smeilie, and which 
the reader has seen, expressly says, that his 
Tail-less Maucauco is sixteen inches from the 
nose to the rump ; while the account of Buf- 
fon's Loris, to which it is thus strangely an- 
nexed, positively says, that animal is not the 
size of a man's hand." 
As this blunder may appear verv extraor- 
dinary, we shall extra(5l the whole of that 
part of BufFon's description of the Lori^, 
which he has taken from Theveno:, and in 
which the size occurs. The reader will then 
sec, that there are other obvious ditFerences 
iKtween the two animals; though Pennant, 
and other naturalists, admit the Loris to be a 
species of the Maucauco, which Buffon abso- 
lutely denies. 
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