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 DESCRIPTION 



OF 



A NEW SPECIES OF MONKEY. 



(PRESBYTIS MITRATA.) 



by frederick eschscholtz. 

 (with a drawing.) 



1 HE generic character is : Angiilus facialh 60 

 grachium, SacaiU buccales niiU'i. Nates tyliis 

 instructw. Cauda elongata. Antipedes genu 

 attingentes. 



This monkey was brought us for sale, by the 

 inhabitants of Sumatra, on our passage through the 

 Straits of Sunda ; it was tame, but lived scarcely 

 a day on board. As, on classing the mon- 

 keys, an essential difference was found to distin- 

 guish it from all the species hitherto known, I 

 thought proper to assign to it a peculiar species 

 under the name of Freshytis^ on account of its 

 resemblance to an old woman, with a cap on her 

 head. Its length, from the head to the beginning 

 of the tail, is about a foot and a half. The back is 

 covered with finely-curled (or wavy) hair, two 

 inches long ; which is of a yellowish-white colour, 



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