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into several lobes; the caecum tliick, short, and without any appendage; 

 the hyoid bone has the form of a shield. 



Cercopithecus, ErxL, partim. 



Tlie long-tailed monkeys* have a moderately prominent muzzle (of 60") : 

 cheek-pouches; tail; callosities on the buttocks; the last of the inferior 

 molares with four tubercles like the rest. Numerous species, of every 

 variety of size and colour, abound in Africa, live in troops, and do much 

 damage to the gardens and fields under cultivation. They are easily 

 tamed. 



Simia rubra, Gm. ; Buff. XIV. 30 ; Fred. Cuv. 24. (The Pa- 

 tras). Red fawn colour above, whitish below , a black band over the 

 • eyes, sometimes surmounted with white — from Senegal. 



Simm cethiops, L. ; Buff. XIV. 32; Fred. Cuv. 25. (The Col- 

 lared Mangabey). A chocolate brown above ; below and the nape of 

 the neck, whitish ; on the head a cap or coif of a lively red ; eye-lids 

 white. Buffon says it is from INIadagascar, and Hasselquist from 

 Senegal; and in fact Sonnerat declares, there are no monkeys in 

 Madagascar. 



Simla fuliginosa, Geoff.; Buff. XIV. 32; Fred. Cuv. 25. (The 

 Mangabey). A chocolate brown, uniform above, fawn coloured be- 

 low; eye-lids white. Buffon says it is from Madagascar, and he 

 believes it to be a variety of the preceding. 



Simia sabcea, Lin. ; Buff. XIV. 37 ; Fred. Cuv. 19. (The Green 

 Monkey)-}-. It is greenish above, whitish beneath; face black; the 

 tufts on the cheeks yellowish ; tip of the tail yeUow. From Senegal. 

 Simia faunuSjGva. ; Malbrouc, B\iW.X.lY. 29; Simia cynosorus, 

 Scopol.; Schr. pi. 14, C; Fred. Cuv. pi. 22, var. of the callithrix; 

 Audeb. 4th fam. 2dsect.pl. 5%. Greenish above; limbs ash-co- 

 loured ; face flesh-coloured ; no yellow on the tail ; one black, and 

 one white band over the eye-brows; scrotum of a beautiful ultra- 

 marine. 



Simia erythropyga, Fred. Cuv. pi. 21. (The Vervet) differs from 

 the Malbrouc in the scrotum ; which is surrounded with Avhite hairs, 

 the anus with red ones ; and from the Grivet {S. grisea) Fred. Cuv. 

 21, by a green scrotum, encircled with fawn-coloured hairs. 



Simla melarhina, Fred. Cuv. pi. 18; Buff. XIV. pi. 10. (The 

 Talapoin). Greenish above ; tufts of the cheek yellowish ; a black 

 nose in the middle of a flesh-coloured face. 



Sim. mona and *S'. monacha, Schreb. ; Buff. XIV. 3G; Fred. Cuv. 

 13. (The Mona). Body brown; limbs black; the breast; insides of 

 the arms, and circumference of the head whitish ; black band across 

 the forehead ; a white spot at each side of the root of the tail. 



* Cercopithecus, i. e. tailed monkey, a name used by the Greeks. 



t Callithrix, Pliny, 1. 8, c. 54, is the name of an Ethiopian monkey, furnished with 

 a beard and a tufted tail, probably the Ouuuderott. Buffon arbitrarily applied it to 

 this species.* 



X The Cercop. barhatus of Chisius, which Linn, cites as an example of his fuiinus, 

 is rather an Ouavderou than a Malbrovc. 



