46 THE NOMENCLATURE 



or long- tailed monkeys, namely, the mone and 

 tlie callitrix, who are natives of Arabia and the 

 northern parts of Africa. They had no idea of 

 the other kinds ; becaufe thefe are found only in 

 the fouthern provinces of Africa and the Eafl 

 Indies, countries entirely unknown in the days 

 of Ariftotle. This great philofopher, and the 

 Greeks in general, v\'ere too wife to confound 

 beings by common, and, therefore, equivocal 

 names. They call the ape without a tail pi~ 

 thecos, and the monkey with a long tail, kebos^ 

 As they knevir thefe animals to be diftind fpe- 

 cies, they gave to each a proper name, derived 

 from their moft ftrikinjr chara<fters. All the 

 apes and baboons which they knew, namely, 

 \h.e pigmy, iht cjnocephaliis, or magot, and the 

 fwiia porcaria, or papio, have their hair nearly 

 of a uniform colour. But the monkey, which 

 we have called mone, and the Greeks kebos, has 

 hair of different colours, and is generally known 

 by the name of the "varied ape. This fpecies of 

 monkey was moft common, and beft known in 

 the days of Ariftotle ; and, from its moft diftin- 

 guifhed character, he calls it kebos, which, in 

 Greek, fignifies "varieties in colour. Thus all the 

 animals belonging to the clafs of apes, baboons, 

 and monkeys, mentioned by Arillotle, are redu- 

 ced to four, the pithecos, the cynocephalus, the 

 Jtmia porcai ia, and the kebos ; which we believe 

 to be {he pig?/iyy the magot, or Barbary ape, the 

 the baboon, and the j/.'oue, or varied monkey, not 



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