474 L E M U R. 
rally engaged at the bottom of it. But the pollute, of 
■which he feemed fondeft, was to cling with all four of 
them to the upper wires, his body being inverted ; and 
in the evening he ufually ftood ereft for many minutes 
playing on the wires with his fingers, and rapidly moving 
his body from tide to fide, as if he had found the utility 
of exercife in his unnatural ftate of confinement. A lit¬ 
tle hefore day-break, when my early hours gave me fre¬ 
quent opportunities'of obferving him, he feemed to folicit 
my attention ; and, if I prefen ted my finger to him, he 
licked or nibbled it with great gentlenefs, but eagerly 
took fruit when I offered it ; though he feldom ate much 
at his morning repaft; when tire day brought'back kis night, 
his eyes loft their luftre and ftrength, and he compofed 
himfelf for a Humber of ten or eleven hours. 
“The Pandits know little or nothing of this animal : 
the lower Hindoos of this province generally call it lajjd- 
hanar, or the bafhful ape; and the Muffulmans, retaining 
the fenfe of the epithet, gave it the abfurd appellation of 
a cat; but it is neither a cat nor bafhful; for, though a 
Pandit, who faw my loris by day-light, remarked that he 
was lajjdlu, or model! (a word which the Hindoos apply 
to’all fenfitive plants), yet he only feemed bafhful, while 
in fa 61 he was dim-fighted and drowfy ; for at night, as you 
perceive by his figure, he had open eyes, and as much 
boldnefs as any of the 1 emu res, poetical or Linnasan. As 
to his country, the firfl of the fpecies that I faw in India 
was in the diflrift of Tipra, properly Tripura, whither it 
had been brought, like mine, from the Garrow Moun¬ 
tains; and Dr. Anderfon informs me, that it is found in 
the woods on the coaft of Coromandel: another had been 
fent to a member of our fociety from one of the eafcern 
ifies; and, though it may be alfo a native of Ceylon, yet I 
cannot agree with M. De Buffon, that it is the minute, fo- 
ciable, and docile, animal, mentioned by Thevenot, which 
it refernbles neither in lize nor in difpofition. My little 
friend was, on the whole, very engaging ; and, when he 
was found lifelefs, in the fame poll are in which he would 
naturally have flept, I confoled myfelf with believing, 
that he had died without pain, and lived with as much 
pleafnre as he could have enjoyed in a (late of captivity.” 
3. Lemur indri, the indri: tail none; colour black. 
This has a produced dog-like vifhge, fhort ears, briefly 
tufted ; hair iilky and thick ; face and lower parts greyilh, 
rump white; whole upper part of the neck and body 
black ; nails fiat, but pointed at the ends ; and without 
a tail. The largeft are three feet and a half high ; their 
note is that like a child’s crying. It is a very gentle ani¬ 
mal ; when taken young, it is trained for the chace as 
dogs are. It inhabits Madagafcar, where it is called indri, 
or man of the wood. 
4. Lemur potto, the potto: tailed, body and tail fub- 
ferruginous. An obfcurely-delcribed fpecies, conceived 
to differ from the indri only in the length of the tail. 
Bofrnan, who relates the fuppofed hiftory of this animal, 
on the authority of the negroes, (in his account of Gui¬ 
nea,) attributes to it nearly the fame manners as thofe of 
the European doth. Inhabits Guinea. 
5. Lemur mongoz, the woolly maucauco: tailed; body 
and tail grey. This fpecies is diftinguifhed by orange- 
coloured irides, fhort round ears, end of the nofe black, 
eyes lodged in a circle of black, the fpace between them 
of the fame colour, the reft of the nofe and lower fides of 
the cheeks white. When in full health, the whole upper 
part of the body is covered with long, foft, and thick, 
fur, a li.tle curled or waved, of a deep brownifh afli-co- 
lour; the tail is very long, covered with the fame fort of 
hair, and of the fame colour; the bread and belly white, 
the hands and feet naked, and dinky ; nails flat, except 
that of the inner toe of the hind feet; it is about the fize 
of a cat, and varies,'fometimes with white or yellovv paws, 
and with a face wholly brown. It inhabits Madagafcar 
and the adjacent ifles, fleeps on trees, and turns its tail 
over its head to protett it from rain. It lives on fruits, 
is very fportive and good-natured, but very tender 5 and 
is found as far as Celebes or Macalfar, 
Linnaeus has five varieties: < 3 . Body grey or brown; 
face and hands black, y. Body grey or^black, near the 
eyes a black fpot. Body brown ; nofe and hands, 
white. £. Body entirely brown. £. Body grey ; face 
black, hands yellow. .This laft is the brown maucauco of 
Geoffroy, and the mongous of Buffon. It is one third 
larger than the woolly maucauco, the head rounder, and 
his fnout (harper : the tail, not fo thick and more woolly, 
diminifhes in fize towards the extremity. The colour is 
different alfo; being brown above, afli-coloured under¬ 
neath. The buttocks and legs are tinged with olive-co¬ 
lour, the eyes are of a bright orange-yellow, the head 
entirely black. Hence we may fee the impropriety, be¬ 
fore pointed out by Buffon, of calling this th q brown 
maucauco. Inhabits Madagafcar, whence indeed all the 
fpecies and varieties of this genus have been brought. 
We have fufticiently noticed the refembiance of this genus 
to the monkeys we mull therefore mention a Angular 
fail, that no monkeys are found at Madagafcar. 
6. Lemur rufus, the red maucauco. Perhaps a variety 
of the mongous. The ears, however, are fhorter, the 
hair on the tail is not fo long, and the general colour is 
reddifh, whereas the mongous is grey. They are of the 
fame fize; the muzzle of this is black, the ears fhort and 
rounded ; the top of the head, the temples, the cheeks, 
and throat, are o-f a dirty white; a black line paffes from 
the forehead to the top of the head. The body is of a 
yellowifh red ; the tail is much more (lender than that of 
the mongous, and brown at the end. 
7. Lemur macaco, the ruffed maucauco ; tailed, black; 
collar bearded. This has orange-coloured irides, long 
hair round the fides of the head, (landing out like a ruff; 
tail long ; the colour of the whole animal black, but not 
always, being fometimes white fpotted with black; but 
the feet are uniformly black. Size of a large cat. It in¬ 
habits Madagafcar, is very fierce in its wild ftate, and 
makes a violent noife in the woods. When tamed, they are 
very gentle and good-natured. The hind thighs and legs 
are very long, which makes their pace fideling and 
bounding. 
There are three varieties: [ 3 . Body brown, y. Body 
white. Body black and white mixed. This is the vari 
of Buffon ; and is figured by Audebert with white legs, 
arms, and ruff, and a white belt round the middle of the 
body. 
8. Lemur catta, the ring-tailed maucauco: tail white, 
with black rings. This fpecies is remarkable for its large 
handfome tail, which is rnolfly ereef, and confifting of 
at leaft thirty rings, alternately black and white, quite 
diftindl and feparate. The coat of this beautiful animal 
always neat and filming, changes little its colour: that of 
the lower part of the body is white; it is afh-colour with 
a flight tint of red upon the back. The head, to which a 
muzzle pointed and eredf, an eye lively and animated, 
give much grace, is remarkable for the contrail of its co¬ 
lours : all the muzzle, the contour of the eyes, and the 
occiput, are black ; the forehead and ears are biack ; and 
the cheeks afh-colour; the upper part of the arms is alfo 
of this colour ; a black lift furrounds the throat and falls 
over the fhoulders. It is reprefented at fig. 1. on the an¬ 
nexed Plate. 
The individual which was in the Paris Mufeum in the 
year 1801, had lived nineteen years: it firfl belonged to 
the marquis de Welle, and afterwards to M. Merlin de 
Thionviiie, who prefented it to the national menagerie. 
It is evident, from the great age of this maucauco, that 
he endured the climate of Paris tolerably well: but he 
always appeared incommoded with the cold; he fhowed 
that he was fenfible of it, by gathering himfelf up in a 
heap, drawing his legs up to his belly, and covering his 
back with his tail. He was kept in winter within reach 
of a (love ; before which he feated himfelf, firetching out 
his arms to approach nearer the fire; and in this manner 
he 11 fed to warm himfelf. He loved the fire fo much, as 
fometimes to finge his whifkers and fcorch his face be¬ 
fore he would remove to a convenient diflance ; inftead of 
drawing 
