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of Cuvier; while the modern British zoologists 

 place it in company with the Barbary ape and the 

 Rhcesus monkey. The general resemblance and phy- 

 siognomy ally it to the dog-faced baboons, which is 

 strengthened by the swelled cheeks and flat nose; 

 but the position of the nostrils, with habits charac- 

 teristic of the Macaci, and the total want of any 

 tail, join it with the preceding. Four specimens 

 only seem yet to.be known; one in the Royal 

 Museum in Paris ; another in the Tower of London, 

 described by Mr Grey in his Spicefogia Zoologica; 

 another more lately exhibited in Exeter Change, and 

 the fourth in the London Zoological Gardens, which 

 is thus described by Mr Bennet: 



" Our animal is of a deep jet black in all its parts, 

 with the exception of its large callosities, which are 

 flesh-coloured. The body is covered with long woolly 

 hair, becoming shorter on the limbs ; its ears are small ; 

 its tail a mere tubercle, less than an inch in length ; 

 and its cheek-pouches eeem to be capable of much 

 distension. Its face is broad, rather prominent, slightly 

 narrowing at the muzzle, and abruptly truncate, with 

 the nostrils placed very obliquely on the upper sur- 

 face. On the top of the head it has a broad tuft of 

 long hairs, falling backwards, and forming a very re- 

 markable crest. The expression of its physiognomy 

 is peculiarly cunning. It seems to be rather violent 

 in its temper, and tyrannizes not a little over the quiet 



