M2 HISlORY OF 



The fourth is the mauikina ; with a mane round the neck, 

 and a bunch of hair at the end of the tail, like a lion. 



The fifth is called the pinch; with the face of a beautiful 

 black, and white hair that descends on each side of the face, like 

 that of man. 



The last, least, and most beautiful of all, is the mico, an ani- 

 mal too curiously adorned not to demand a particular description ; 

 which is thus given of it by Mr Condamine : — " That," says he, 

 " which the governor of Para made me a present of, was the only 

 one of its kind that was seen in the country. The hair on its 

 body was of a beautiful silver colour, brighter than that of the 

 most venerable human hair ; while the tail was of a deep brown, 

 inclining to blackness. It had another singularity more remark- 

 able than the former ; its ears, its cheeks, and lips, were tinctured 



the Old World by several remarkable characters, affeciing not only its out. 

 ward form but also some essential parts of its internal organization. In the 

 degree of their intelligence, the form of their heads, and the general outline 

 of their proportions, the species which compose it seem to occupy an inter, 

 mediate station between two other purely Asiatic groups, the Gibbons of 

 Buft'on, which are the Hylobates of modern systematists, and the Macaques, 

 of which the Wanderoo may be regarded as the type. Their bodies are 

 slightly made ; their limbs long and slender ; their tails of great length, con. 

 siderably exceeding that of the body ; their callosities of small size ; and their 

 cheek-pouches, in those species which appear to possess them, so inconsider. 

 able as scarcely to deserve the name. The character, however, which at 

 once distinguishes them from the Cercopitheci, is found in their dentition, 

 and more particularly ui the form of the cro^vn of the last molar tooth of the 

 lower jaw, which, instead of four tubercles, one at each angle of the tooth 

 Its in the latter genus, otfers five such projeetions on its surface, the addi 

 tional one occupying the middle line of the tooth, and being placed posteri. 

 orly to the rest. The Gibbons and the Macaques are also furnished with this 

 additional tubercle. 



The Entellus is too distinct a species to be confounded with any other. 

 It is of a uniform ashy-gray on the upper parts, becoming darker on the tail, 

 which is grayish brown, of equal tliickness throughout, and terminated by 

 u few long h;iirs running out into a kind of point, but not forming a tuft. 

 The under surface of the body is of a dingy yellowish white ; and the fore 

 arms, hands, and feet are of a dusky black. The fingers of both extremities 

 are very long, and the thumbs comparatively short. The face, which is 

 black with somewhat of a violet tinge, is surmounted above the eyebrows 

 by a line of long stiff black hairs, which project forwards and slightly up. 

 wards. On the sides of the cheeks and beneath the chin it is margined by a 

 beard of grayish white passing along the line of the jaws and extending up. 

 wards in front of the ears, which are large and prominent, and of the same 

 coloiu- with the face. The hairs of the fore part of the head appear to di. 

 verge from a common centre. 



