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MONKIES. 



JAPAN. 



ITtt.re are fome monkies, by Kaempfer's defcription, of the 

 baboon clafs, and of the kind I defcribe under the name of the 

 dog-faced. HiJJ. Suad. N" 103. They are of a dufky brown, with 

 naked red faces and buttocks. 



A FEW fmall bears are found in the northern provinces.. 

 Foxes are very common. Rats and mice fwarm. The rats are 

 taught feveral tricks, and ferve for the amufement of the com- 

 mon people. The animals called Tanucki, Fulor^ Stutz^ and 7/';?, 

 are unknown to me. 



" Thunberg to the foregoing catalogue only adds the wolf, an 

 animal confined to the northern provinces." E. 



Birds. 



The birds of this empire are probably fimilar to thofe which 

 inhabit the fame Afiatic Latitudes immediately to tlie w^eft. I 

 find here cranes^ Arci. ZooL ii. p. 141. and fnowy geefe, N° 477. 

 and doubtlefsly many others will be difcovered as foon as Dodlor 

 Tbunberg has favored us with his Fauna Japonenjis. 



The Japan peacock, Latham, ii. 672. Aldrov. av. ii. tab. 33. 

 34. Jobnjlon, av. tab. 23. may be a new fpecies. 



" Dr. 'fbunberg, vol. iv. p. 99. of the tranflation of his travels, 

 gives the following unfatisfadtory lift : 



Phafianus gallus^ Latha??!, iv. 700. 



CoT'vus cor ax i raven, Latham, i. 367. Br. ZooL i. N" 74. 



Anas Anfer, wild goofe, Latham, vi. 459. Br. ZooL ii. N° 266. 

 Galericiilata, Cbinefe teal, Latham, vi. 548. 

 ^erquedula, Garganey, Latham, vi. 550. Br. ZooL ii. 

 N° 289. tab. 101. 



Ardea alba, great white heron, Latham, v. 91. Br. ZooL ii. 



N° 175. 



Ardea 



