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MAMMALIA. 
Sub-Genus 2. — Nasalis. — Geoffrey .—Nose produced, and 
disproportionately long; ears small and round; body gross ; 
anterior hands with four fingers only, and a short thumb; pos¬ 
terior hands broader, with thick nails; tail longer than the 
body, with callosities on the hinder parts. 
Cercopithecus nasicus. — The Proboscis Monkey. 
Plate IV. fig. 5. 
Face somewhat curved, brown, marked with blue and red; 
head chestnut coloured, large in proportion to the size of the 
body ; ears broad, thin, naked, and hid with hair ; body chest¬ 
nut colour, approaching to orange on the breast; throat and 
shoulders with long hair, resembling a tippet. Two feet long 
from the nose to the tail. 
Inhabits India, principally at Cochin-China. 
Sub-Genus 3. — Cercopithecus. — Linnaeus .—The head is 
round, the coronal surface produced ; facial angle 50 degrees ; 
superciliary ridges a-wanting ; nose depressed, nostrils open at 
the top of the nasal furrows; orbitary hollows with smooth 
edges; no callosities on the hinder parts. 
Cercopithecus mono .— The Varied Monkey. 
Plate V. fig. 9. 
Nose short and thick—face dark lead colour ; beard on each 
side long, greenish yellow. Coronal surface bright yellow, 
freckled with black; back and sides chestnut brow n; legs, feet, 
and tail, black; inside of the thighs pale blue, with two whit¬ 
ish spots on the hinder parts. Length, eighteen inches. 
Inhabits Barbary, Arabia and Persia. 
Sub-Genus 4.— Cercocebus. — Geoffroy. —Muzzle somewhat 
longer than the preceding ; facial angle 45 degrees; margins of 
the orbits projecting. 
