MAUCAUCO. 
137 
Vari Flacourt. bp. Madag. 153. Lemur Catta. L. caudatus, cau- 106. Rinc- 
Mocawk. Crop’s <voy. 41. da albo nigroque annulata. Lin . tail. 
Maucauco^ ift&ts. 197. ^ jyji. 45. Ojfbeck’s <voy. II. 168. 
Prolimia cinerea, cauda cinfta Le Mococo de Buffon , xiii. 173. 
annulis alternatim albis et nigris. tab. xxii. 
B rtf on quad. 157 . 
M. with the end of the nofe black : ears ereft : 
white face: black circles round the orbits : hair on 
the top of the head and hind part, deep aflh color: 
back and fides reddilh afh color: outfides of the 
limbs paler : belly and infide of the limbs white : 
all its hair very foft, clofe and fine, ere< 5 t like the 
pile of velvet: tail twice the length of the body; 
is marked with numbers of regular rings of black 
and white 5 and when fitting twilled round the body, 
and brought over its head: nails flat, particularly 
thofe of the thumbs of the hind feet: infide of the 
hands and feet black: fize of a cat. 
Inhabits Madagafcar and the neighboring ifles: 
is very good-natured, has all the life of a monkey, 
without its mifchievous difpofition : is very cleanly: 
its cry weak: in a wild ftate, goes in troops of 
thirty or forty : is eafily tamed when taken young: 
according to Flacourt fometimes found white; 
Cauche in his voyage to Madagafcar * alfo fpeak# of 
a white kind, which he fays grunts like fwine, and 
is called there Amboimms . 
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