The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . —Hand and Foot of Lcmnr CA MAMMALIA. varied with large patches of black on a pure white ground. They averag:e 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
The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . —Hand and Foot of Lcmnr CA MAMMALIA. varied with large patches of black on a pure white ground. They averag:e 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, bnt they often break forth into ahoarse abrupt roar, producing a startling efffect; in their native forests they frequently thus roar in concert.] The Indris (Lickanottis, Illiger)^Have teeth as in the preceding, except that there are only four [two] lower incisors [the central pro-bably soon faUing. Their hinder limbs are extremely long ; the head broad, muzzle short, and handslong.] But one species is known, without tail [th
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