SIMIAD^E. 535 



ciliary ridge are white ; the whiskers, or cheek-tufts, which are not full, as 

 in the Moustache Monkey, are directed downward, and are of a delicate 

 golden straw colour ; the top of the head, and the upper surface generally, 

 are of a bright olive green, the hairs being plumbeous grey at the roots, 

 then olive green, and then blackish at the tips ; the olive green tint 

 becomes paler on the anterior hands, and on the hind hands, or feet, passes 

 into yellowish olive ; the tail is of an ashy grey ; the chin is dusky ; the under 

 surface, and the inside of the limbs, are white ; the ears are black, large, 

 and naked. This species differs, among other things, from the Moustache 

 Monkey, in having the ears comparatively larger, and in the hairs of the 

 back not being ringed so often, nor so strongly ; in the Moustache Monkey 

 they are annulated three times with fulvous, and the ears are covered with 

 yellowish white hairs. 



Length of head and body 1ft. l|in. ; tail imperfect. 



GENERAL HISTORY. The Talapoin is by no means identical with the 

 Grivet, as has been suspected, but is a species closely allied to the 

 Moustache Monkey, from which, however, it is sufficiently distinguishable. 

 Fred. Cuvier has figured a young female, which he obtained in Paris, but he 

 could gain no information as to the country whence it was brought : it was 

 gentle and lively. 



From the name Talapoin, which is that of a sect among the Budd- 

 hists of India, Buffon was led to refer the present species to that country 

 as its native habitat. How it obtained this name does not appear ; 

 most probably it is a misnomer, and might, as Mr. Ogilby suggests, be 

 changed for that of Melarhine, as used by Fred. Cuvier. Certainly, it 

 is not a native of India. 



A specimen of the Talapoin was living, a few years since, in the 

 menagerie of the Zoological Society, London. It was remarkable for 

 intelligence, good nature, and the elegance of its movements ; it was very 

 lively, but timid, and, though disposed to be familiar, was neither obtru- 

 sive nor mischievous. Like the Moustache Monkey the constitution 

 of this species is very delicate ; and it is rarely seen in the menageries of 

 Europe, the climate of which it does not long endure. 



THE RED-EARED MONKEY. 



CERCOPITHECUS ERYTHROTIS. (CercopWiecus erythrntis, WATERHOUSE, in Proceedings Zool. 



Soc. p. 5y. 1838.) 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. General colour, grey; the hairs of the upper parts being annu- 

 lated with black and yellow ; throat and cheeks, white ; arms, blackish; tail, rufous, 

 with a black line on its upper surface, and with the tip black ; ears, rufous. 



LOCALITY. Fernando Po. 



DESCRIPTION. Description of original specimen (No. 33 A, Suppl. 

 Cat. Mamm.) in the museum of the Zoological Society, London : 



