524 QUADRUMANA. 



bow," has suggested the animal's name ; the sides of the face are covered 

 with long, bushy, white hairs, which terminate on the chin, in a long, thin, 

 flat, and pointed beard, of two or three inches in length ; the front of 

 the neck and chest, and the anterior part of the humerus, are also white, 

 the latter with an abrupt line of demarcation ; on the middle of the back 

 commences a mark of deep chestnut, which gradually widens as it passes 

 along to the root of the tail, forming a defined elongated triangle with the 

 base on the crupper ; a line of white, commencing at the root of the tail, 

 runs obliquely along the outer side of each thigh to the knee ; the lower 

 part of the abdomen and the inner side of the thighs are abruptly of an 

 orange yellow, orange red, or bright rust colour ; the face is long and 

 triangular, and, together with the ears, intensely black. 



ft. in. 



Length of head and body about 2 



Ditto tail 24 



The following observations on this richly coloured and elegant species, 

 from the pen of the late E. T. Bennett, Esq., contain so excellent an 

 eclaircissement of the confusion with which it has been surrounded, that, 

 in justice to his memory, we cannot withhold them. " The Diana Mon- 

 key, so called by Linnaeus, from the fancied resemblance of the crescent- 

 shaped bar, which ornaments its brow, to the ancient poetical represen- 

 tations of the goddess of the silver bow, was first figured by Marcgrave, 

 in his Natural History of Brazil, under the name of Exquima, by which, 

 according to him, it was known to the Negroes of Congo, its native land. 

 No subsequent naturalist appears to have observed it, until Linnaeus 

 carefully described and figured it, in the Stockholm Transactions for 

 1754, from a living specimen, and gave a' t long and highly interesting 

 account of its habits and behaviour. But this paper, probably on account 

 of its being written in Swedish, or, perhaps, in consequence of the affected 

 contempt with which the great French natural historian was wont to 

 treat the still greater naturalist of the North, seems to have been so 

 little known to Buffon, that the latter, setting aside the positive assertion 

 of Marcgrave, whom alone he quotes, maintains that the Exquima must 

 have been one of the prehensile-tailed Monkeys of the western world. 

 From this strange assertion, to which he was probably induced by the figure 

 of one of these being erroneously inserted into the text, in place of that 

 of the African Monkey, which was given on another page, and from his 

 making no farther mention of the animal, it appears that he had never 

 seen a specimen. Allamand, however, in the Dutch edition of Buflfon's 

 Natural History, gave an excellent account of two living individuals 

 which had fallen under his notice at Amsterdam, which he imagined to 

 belong to a new species, and to which he first assigned the name of 

 Palatine, on account of the peculiar ruff of the fore part of the neck, but 



