The Hiflory of ANIMALS. 
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Simla caudaia fufco-ferruginect. 
The ferrugineous brvwn Simia. 
%\)t Bat-ape. 
This is one of the fmalleft of the monkey-kind; it is not larger than the common 
rat, but, though of a dufky colour, it has a peculiar pleafantnefs or chearfulnefs of af- 
pedt: the head is fmall j the forehead is low; the eyes are large and bright, and their 
iris is of a light hazel: the nofe is depreffed toward the top, and is fomewhat turned 
up, but obtufe at the extremity: the noftrils are large; the teeth are fmall and white, 
and the creature is almoft continually fhewing them by grinning: the neck is fhort; 
the body is tolerably flefhy 5 the legs are (lender, robuft, not remarkably long; the 
tail is very long and naked, and has greatly the appearance of that of the rat. The 
colour is a mixt ferrugineous brown and grey, with fomewhat of an under colour of 
yellowifh $ the belly is darker than the back or fides. 
It is a native both of the Eaft and Weft Indies, but few of the writers on quadru- 
peds have defcribed it. Marcgrave mentions one like it, but it is not certain it is 
the fame, 
$JJ a d R u p E D s. 
Clafs the Fourth . 
F E R M. 
T H E fore-teeth of the Feras are fix each way ; the canine teeth are longer than 
the others. 
U R S U S. 
H E fore-teeth of the Urfus are of a conic figure, and are emarginated on the 
inner part; the inferior ones are lobated : the canine teeth are placed at a dis¬ 
tance from the grinders, and are on each fide two; the hinder tooth is very fmall: 
the feet are formed for walking, and, in their ufual way of being placed down, the 
creature treads upon the heel. The penis is bony. 
Urfus cauda abrupt a. 
7 he Urfus , with an abrupt tail . 
This is a large but an uncouth and unfightly animal; it grows to different fizes in 
different places, from that of a maftiff-dog to the bignefs of a fmall heifer : the whole 
creature is covered with a thick and deep fur in fuch manner, that it appears rather a 
fhapelefs lump, than an animal: the head is large and long; the neck is fhort, and 
very thick ; the thighs are long, but the under part of the legs fhort, and it has a 
knee-pan or patella at that joint. 
The fur is deep both on the back and the belly, but, when ftripped, the fkin is re¬ 
markably thick on the former part, and very thin on the latter : the hairs which 
compofe the fur are not rigid and harfh, as in the lion and tyger, but rather foft and 
woolly; they are fomewhat curled alfo, much more fo than in the goat, but not nearly 
fo much as in the fheep-kind : the brain is in vaft quantity 5 the fkull is thin, but firm, 
and the eyes are very fmall. 
The feet are each divided into five toes, the hinder ones as well as the fore-ones 5 
that which anfwers to the thumb on the human hand, or great toe on our feet, is 
fituated on the contrary fide, in the place of the leaft toe, or little finger 5 they are all 
6 7 fhort. 
