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readers to the note of species given at the conclusion. 

 We shall here only mention another animal, remark- 

 able among its congeners for the uniformity of iti 

 colouring, it is, 



THE RED MONKEY. 

 Cercopithecus ruler. GEOFFROY. 



PlATE XL 



Simla rubra, Linnceus Cercopithecus ruber, Geoffrey, An. 



nales du Museum, vol. xix. p. 96 Guenon patas, Des- 



maresfs Mammalogie, p. 59 Le Patas, Frederic Burner, 

 Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes. 



IT is a species long known, recorded so far back as 

 Prosper Alpinus, who has given both a figure and 

 description. The length of the body is about one foot 

 four or five inches, and that of the tail is nearly equal. 

 All the upper parts are of a brilliant reddish fawn 

 colour, which is shaded into a pale grayish tinge on 

 the arms and legs, and the face, cheeks, breast, and 

 belly, are pure white ; a band of black hair crosses 

 above the eyebrows, and there are two lines of the 

 same colour upon the upper lip, in the shape of mus- 

 taches, which give the countenance a peculiar phy- 

 siognomy. It is a native of Senegal. Mr. Bennet 

 mentions that a young individual in the Zoological 

 Museum, Bruton Street, "is lively and active, but 



