M A U C A TJ C O, n) 
middle of the back to the tail: tail of a bright tawny, 
mixed with black; is round, and has the fame pre- 
henfile faculty as fome of the monkies have: length 
from the nofe to the tail nineteen inches; of the 
tail feventeen: very good-natured and fportive ; 
would catch hold of any thing with its tail, and fo 
fufpend itfelf: lay with its head under its legs and ♦ 
belly. 
Shewn about three years ago in London : its keeper 
faid it came from the mountains of Jamaica , and 
called it a Potto , the name given by fome writers to 
a fpecies of Sloth 9 found in Guinea . 
Vefpertilio admirabilis. Bontius Lemur volans. L. caudatus, 109. Flying. 
Jwya. 6 8. membrana ambiente volitans, 
Felis volans Ternatana. Seb.Muf, Lin.JyJi . 45. 
I. tab . 58. 
M. with a long head : fmall mouth and teeth: fmall 
ears, round and membranous : from the neck to 
the hands, thence to the hind feet, extends a broad 
ikin, like that of a flying fquirrel; the fame is alfo 
continued from the hind feet to the tip of the tail, 
which is included in it: the body and out fide of this 
(kin is covered with foft hairs, hoary, or black and 
afh color: the inner fide of the extended (kin ap¬ 
pears membranous, with little veins and fibres dif- 
perfed thro’ it: the legs are cloathed with a foft yel¬ 
low down : five tees on each foot: the claws (lender, 
very (harp, and crooked, by which it ftrongly ad¬ 
heres to whatfoever it fallens on: the whole length of 
this fpecies is near three feet: the breadth the fame: 
the tail (lender 5 a fpan long. 
Inhabits 
