M A U C A U C O. ij S 
Six cutting teeth, and two canine teeth in each jaw. 
Sharp pointed fox-like vifage. 
Feet formed like hands. 
Animal elegantiffimum Robinfoni. Lemur tardigradus, L. ecauda- Tail-* 
Raiijyn. quad. 161. tus. Lin.fyji .44.. LESS. 
Animalculum cynocephalurn, Simia unguibus indicis pedum 
t>y/(d«fr«z»,Tardigraclum di&um, pofteriorum longis, mcurvis, et 
Sirnii fpecies. Maf. Seb. Muf. I. acutis. Briffbn (quad. 134. S. cy- 
tab. 35. Cercopithecus ceylonicns } nocephala unguibus indicis Ion- 
feu Tardigradus di&us, major gis incurvis et acutis. Idem. 135* 
Idem. tab. 47. Klein quad. 86. Le Loris de Buffon, xiii. 210. 
M. with a fmall head ; fliarp pointed nofe : orbits 
furrounded with a black circle, fpace between them 
white : from the top of the head along the middle 
bf the back, to the rump, a dark ferruginous line 5 
which on the forehead is bifurcated: ears fmall: 
body covered with Ihort, foft, and filky alb-colored, 
and reddifli fur: toes naked: nails flat: thofe of 
the inner toe on each hind foot long, crooked and 
fliarp : length from the nofe to the rump flxteei! 
inches. 
Inhabits Ceylon and Bengal; lives'in the woods, 
and feeds on fruits : is fond of eggs, and will 
greedily devour fmall birds: has the a&ion and 
inactivity of the floth *, creeps flowly along the 
ground : is very tenacious of its hold, arid make^ 
a plaintive nolle. 
M. de Buffon reprefents his animal with a much 
longer vifage than this ; his is the fame with that 
represented by Sebd , lab. 35, and each of them 
* Vide that article: this animal, netv/ithftauding its manners, 
cannot be ranked with the /loth, having both cutting and canine 
teeth; 
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