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:md wrinkled; and its aspect ferocious and disgusting. 

 This kind is subdivided into several varieties, dider- 

 oiit both in size and colour. They are all, however, 

 equally destructive in cultivated grounds, for being 

 extremely nice in their choice, they do more damage 

 by pulling up what dees not please them, than by 

 the quantity which they devour. 



THE FAT AS, OR RED MONKEY. 



is nearly of the same size with the macaque, and is a 

 native of the same country, but much less frightful 

 in its appearance ; its aspect being more agreeable, 

 and its hair of a bright red. These plunder planta- 

 tions and corn fields, like the former, and use the 

 same precautions of placing centinels, which most af 

 the ape, baboon, -and monkey tribes adopt. 



THE CATITRIX, OR GREEN MONKEY,, 



is a beautiful animal. On the back and tail it is of a 

 tine green colour, and the throat and belly are of an 

 elegant silver white. It is common in the Cape de 

 Verd islands, in the north of Africa, and in many 

 parts of the East Indies, 



THE MONA, OR VARIED MONKEY, 



is a native of Arabia, Persia, and the northern parts 

 of Africa, and : is the best known in Europe of all the 

 monkey tribe. Its back and sides art* of a deep, 

 brown colour, with black freckles; the legs, feet, and 

 tail* are black: the inside of the thighs of a pale blue j 

 and on each side of the tail there is usually a large 

 white 'spot: the top of the head is yellow, freckled 

 with black; -its nose is short; its face of a dark lead 

 colour, with the beard on each side long, and of a 

 greenish yellow. When tamed, it will feed on all 

 kinds of victuals, but is particularly fond of fruit, 



Of all the different species of this kind of animals 

 which either continent produces, 



THE MICO, OR FAIR MONKEY, 



is the most beautiful : its body is covered with hair of 

 a silver white: its head is small and round: its face 

 and ears of so lively a verrnillion, that it might be 

 supposed the effect of art; but Nature, in the. variety 

 of her colourings, every where shews that her paint- 



