SIMIADyE. 537 



DESCRIPTION. A specimen in the Paris Museum, presents the 

 following characters : The head is round, the forehead elevated, the 

 face depressed ; the nose is broad, and prominently convex, and 

 of a clear white from between the eyes to the nostrils, where the 

 white ends, without infringing on the lower lip ; this white is produced 

 by short, smooth, closely-set hairs ; the colour of the rest of the lace is 

 bluish black ; the chin and throat are without a beard, but have a few 

 scattered, close, white hairs ; the upper lip ; is sprinkled with black hairs ; 

 very full bushy whiskers, arising immediately below the eyes, spread back- 

 ward and downward ; the hair of the head is very full, boldly over- 

 reaching the eyes, obscuring the ears, and adding to the breadth and 

 elevation of the top of the head ; the colour of the whiskers and of 

 the head is grizzled black, as is that, also, of the back, sides, thighs, and 

 legs (but darker on the latter) : this hue is produced by each hair being 

 grey at the root, then ringed with black and straw ; the shoulders, the 

 chest, the arms, fore-hands, and feet, are black ; the tail, also, is black; the 

 abdomen is of a dirty blackish grey ; on the back, a few long hairs are 

 completely black ; and the edges of the whiskers below the ears, indicating 

 the division between them and the long hair of the head, are black also ; 

 the ears are dusky : the orbits are of a flesh colour ; the hands and feet are 

 long. 



ft. in. 



Length of head and body 1 44 



Ditto tail 25 



Ditto hind foot . . . 05 



The fine specimen from which the preceding description was taken, 

 in the Museum of Paris, was obtained from the master of a travelling 

 menagerie, November, 1818; a somewhat larger specimen, in an indifferent 

 condition, presents exactly the same characters and colouring, but the 

 eyes are painted round with orange red. 



The physiognomy of this Monkey is very different from that of 

 Cere. Petaurista, from which it may be distinguished, independently of 

 the general colouring, by the white being restricted to the nose ; by the 

 absence of a beard below the chin, which is nearly naked ; by the 

 fulness of the whiskers and hairs of the head, and by the comparatively 

 greater length of the hands and feet. 



GENERAL HISTORY. The White-nosed Monkey, or Hocheur, was, 

 originally, indicated by Marcgrave. Linnaeus, again, under the denomina- 

 tion of Simia nictitans, gave a brief account of it from Alstroemer's 

 description of a living individual belonging to a Professor of Botany at 

 Amsterdam. Buffon not only described, but figured it ; so, also, did 

 Audebert : each, however, merely from a cabinet specimen. The former 

 gave it the name of Guenon a blanc nez preeminent, and considered it 



