472 HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



All the Baboons and Monkies we have yet des- 

 cribed, ^are furnished with cheek-pouches, capable 

 of containing" food sufficient to supply them for a 

 day or two : they also serve as receptacles for what- 

 ever they obtain more than supplies their present 

 wants. But we have thought it unnecessary to re- 

 peat this circumstance in the account of every ani- 

 mal of those kinds. 



THE DOUG. 



DIFFERS from other Monkies, in having no cal- 

 losities on its buttocks, which are entirely covered 

 with hair ; it is also much larger, being nearly four 

 feet high when erect. Its face is short and rather 

 flat, furnished on each side with long hairs of a pale 

 yellow colour ; its body is beautifully variegated 

 with differently coloured hair; round the neck there 

 is a collar of a bluish purple colour ; the top of the 

 head and body are .grey ; breast and belly yellow ; 

 arms white below, and black above ; tail white ; 

 fee'j black ; face and ears red ; lips black ; and 

 round each eye there is a black ring. It is found 

 in Cochin-China, and in the island of Madagascar ; 

 where it is called the SIFAC. 



M. Buffon places the Douc in the last class of 

 those animals of the Monkey kind that belong to 

 the old continent, and describes it as forming a 

 shade between them and the Monkies of America, 

 which he distinguishes by the generic names of 

 SAPAJOUS and SAGOINS. They both of them differ 

 from Monkies, in having neither cheek-pouches nor 

 callosities on their buttocks ; and they are dis- 

 tinguished from each other by characters peculiar 



