The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . led {Lemur, as restricted [Prosimia, Briss.]),—Have six [four] lower incisors, compressed, and slanting forwards [as are also the canines] ; four inthe upper jaw, which are straight, those intermediate being separated from each other; trenchant[upper] canines; six molars on each side above, and six belowf; the ears small. They are verynimble animals, and have been designated Fox-nosed Monkeys, from their pointed heads. Theysubsist on fruits. Their species are
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . led {Lemur, as restricted [Prosimia, Briss.]),—Have six [four] lower incisors, compressed, and slanting forwards [as are also the canines] ; four inthe upper jaw, which are straight, those intermediate being separated from each other; trenchant[upper] canines; six molars on each side above, and six belowf; the ears small. They are verynimble animals, and have been designated Fox-nosed Monkeys, from their pointed heads. Theysubsist on fruits. Their species are very numerous, and inhabit only the island of Madagascar, wheretliey appear to replace the Monkey-tribe, wliich, it is said, do not exist there. They differ but slightlyamong themselves, except in colour. [Thirteen, at least, have been ascertained definitively; one of the longest known of which is the Macaco ofBufion, or the Ring-tailed Lemur (L. catfa, Lin.), which is ash-grey, the tail annulated black and white. Othersare black, or rufous, with sometimes white; and one beautiful species, the Rufled Lemur (L. macaco, Lin.), is. Fig. 4.—Ha Dfi Foot of Lemur * An approach to this deviation on the part of the inferior canine i noticeable in the adult Mandrill.—Eo. t The latter statementwould have been erioncou! anccs to be correct, but,-Ed. 64 MAMMALIA. varied with large patclies of black on a pure white ground. Tliey average the size of a large Cat, but have longerlimbs ; and have all long tails, which are elevated in a sigmoid form, when in motion, and not trailed after are nocturnal or twilight animals, which sleep by day in a ball-like figure, perched on a bough ; are gentlein disposition, and easily tamed ; but have much less intelligence than the Monkeys, and are without the prying,mischievous propensities of those animals : their ordinary voice is a low grunt, but they often break forth into ahoarse abrupt roar, producing a startling effect; in their nativ
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