OF APES. 4^ 



i)iks of fome travellers * in the fixteenth and 

 icvcnreenth centuries. The word guenon is pro- 

 bably derived from kcbos, or kepos, which the 

 Creeks employed to denote the long-tailed apes. 

 'I iiefe kebcs, or gueno7is^ are fmaller and weaker 

 than the apes and baboons. They are cafily di- 

 iiinguifliable from one another by this difference, 

 and particularly by their long tail. With equal 

 eafe they may be diftinguilhed from the niakis 

 or maucaucos ; becaufe they have not a Iharp 

 ruizzle, and, inllead of fix cutting teeth, like 

 ihe makis, they have only four, like the apes 

 and baboons. We know eight fpecies of gue- 

 nons ; and, to prevent confufion, we Ihall be- 

 fiow on each a proper name : i. The macaque^ 

 or hare lipped monkey; 2. ^\\q patas, or red 

 monkey ; 3. The malbroiik ; 4. The mangahe)\ 

 or monkey with the upper eye- lids of a pure 

 white colour ; 5, The vionc^ or varied monkey; 

 (■>. The callitrix, or green monkey : 7. The 

 nrjujiac, or whifkered monkey ; 8. The talapoin ; 

 y. T\\Q douc^ or monkey of Cochinchina. The 

 ancient Greeks knew only two oi ihtk gitejionsy 



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* In Senegal tiiere are fever;il fpecies of apes, as the gur- 

 fioui, with a long tail ; and the vtjgots, who have no tail ; 

 Voyage de la MaUe, p. lor. — In the mountains of South Ame- 

 rica, there is a kind ol viones, or long-tailed monkeys, which 

 the favages call cacuyev.. They are of the fame fize with the 

 common kind, from which they differ only by having a beard 



on their chin. Along with thefe monies, there are found a 



number of fmall yellow animals, called y^jazrt'/;/ ; ShgulMith 

 dc la Fr. ^'futar/l. par Thrust, p. lOj. 



