236 THE NATfffcAl, HISTOET OF 



THE STRIATED MONKEY. 



Hapales jacchus ILLIGER. 



PLATE XXVII. 



Simla jacchus, Linnceus.^a.-a^wa.^ Edwards' Gleanings^ i.p. I.* 

 Jacchus vulgaris, Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, Annales du 

 Museum, xix. p. 119 __ Ouistiti, Audibert, Histoire Natv 

 relle des Singes ; Frederic Cuvier, Histoire Naturelle dut 

 Mammiferes ; Hapales jacchus, Illiger Prodrwas, p. 71 

 and 72. 



THIS beautiful and clean-looking animal is a favou- 

 rite whenever it happens to be procured, and after a 

 few hours restraint becomes playful and familiar. It 

 has been long known to naturalists, and the illustra- 

 tion taken from Audibert, which accompanies this 

 description, will give a -tolerable idea of its general 

 appearance. 



The length of the body is only about eight inches, 

 that of the tail above eleven ; the general shade of the 

 fur is a grayish-olive, darker, and almost approach- 

 ing to black on the head and shoulders ; and the lower 

 part of the back and tail are barred or ringed with 

 circles, of a rich pale gray, which alternately shade 

 into each other; the lower parts of the body and fore 



