TEE RUFFED LEMUR . 
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It carries its fine tail well stuck up when it runs about, and jumps on all-fours from place to 
place, and grunts with pleasure when fed and noticed. 
The last group of the genus Lemur contains kinds which have a ruff of fur on the cheeks and neck, 
and the ears are pencilled at the end, the wrist being moreover hairy. They are common in Madagascar^ 
and two are worthy of notice — the Huffed Black-aud- White Lemur, and the Huffed Black Lemur. 
THE MONGOOSE LEMT U, OH WOOLLY MACACO, (Jfa/e and Female, partly after Sclater.) 
From the Proceedings of the Zoological Society. 
THE LUFFED LEMUR * 
Ellis, when journeying through one of the Madagascar forests, noticed, one bright, clear, and 
bracing morning, a peculiar shouting or hallooing, apparently at no very great distance. It was, he 
wrote, “ not like any sound I had heard before, but resembled that of men or boys calling to each 
other more than anything else. At first I thought it was a number of people driving cattle out of 
the forest into the road. Still I heard no crashing amongst the underwood, and saw no signs of 
bullocks. Then I imagined it must be a number of bird-catchers, or squirrel-catchers. But on 
* Lemur varius. 
