138 M A U C A U-C O. 
107.Ruffed. Vari oil VaricolTi. Flacourt. hij?. xxvii. 
Madag. 153. Cauches <voy. $3. Lemur caudatus niger, collari 
Black Maucauco. Ed'w.zx 7. barbato. Lin.jyji. 44. 
Le VaH. de Bitffon , xiii. 174. taL 
M. with orange-colored irides: long ' hair round 
the Tides of the head, {landing out like a ruff: tail 
long: the color of the whole animal black, but 
not always, being fometimes white, fpotted with 
black ; but the feet black : rather larger than the 
laft. 
Inhabits Madagafcar : very fierce in a wild {late ; 
&nd make fo violent a noife in the woods, that it is 
eafy to miftake the noife of two for that of a hun¬ 
dred : when tamed are very gentle and good-natured. 
The hind thighs and legs of thefe three fpecies are 
very long, which makes their pace fideling, and 
bounding. 
j \ 
ioS.Yellow. M. with a fhort duiky nofe : fmall eyes: ears fhort, 
broad, and flapping, and placed at a great diftance 
from each other : head flat and broad : cheeks fwefl¬ 
ing out: tongue very long : legs and thighs fliort, 
and very thick : five toes to each foot, feparated 
and fcanding all forward: claws large, a little 
hooked, and of a flefli color : the hairs fliort, foft, 
gloffy, clofely fet together : on the head, back, and 
Tides a mixture of yellow and black : cheeks, inficte 
of the legs, and the belly, yellow : half way down 
the middle of the belly is a broad dufky lift, end¬ 
ing at the tail * and another from the head along the 
middle 
