Endangered ring-tailed lemur, Lemur catta 173, common brown lemur, Eulemur fulvus 174, and critically endangered black-and-white ruffed lemur, Varecia variegata 175. Macauco, mongous and vari. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Jacques de Seve from James Smith Barr’s edition of Comte Buffon’s Natural History, A Theory of the Earth, General History of Man, Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, T. Gillet, H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, London, 1807.

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