OF APES. 47 



only becaufe they agree wiih the charaders gi- 

 ven of them by Ariftotle, but likewife becaufe 

 the other fpecies mufl have been unknown to the 

 ancients, fince they are natives of countries into 

 which the Greek travellers had never penetrated. 



Two or three centuries after Ariftotle, wc 

 find, in the Greek writers, two new names, cal- 

 litbrix and cercopithecos, both relative to the giie- 

 nons, or long tailed monkeys. In proportion as 

 difcoveiies were made of the fouthern regions 

 of Africa and Afia, we found new animals, and 

 other fpecies of monkeys : And, as moll: of thefe 

 monkeys had not, like the kcbos, various colours, 

 the Greeks invented the generic name cercopi- 

 thccos, or tailed ape, to denote all the fpecies of 

 monkeys or apes with long tails ; and, having 

 remarked, among thefe new fpecies, a monkey 

 with hair of a lively greenilh colour, they called 

 it callithrixy v^hich fignifies beautiful baii\ This 

 callithrix is found in the foutii part of Maurita- 

 nia, and in the neighbourhood of Cape de Verd, 

 and is commonly known by the name of the 

 green ape. 



V/lth regard to the other fcven fpecies of 

 monkeys, mentioned above under the appella- 

 tions of 7nakaque, pat as ^ inalbrouk, mangabey, 

 Diouflac, talapoiti, and done, tb.ey wer-e unknown 

 to the Greeks and Latins. The makaque is a 

 native of Congo ; the patas of Senegal ; the man- 

 gabey, of Madagafcar ; the malbrouk, of Bengal ; 

 the mouftac, of Guiney; '^hetalapoin, of Slam ; 



and 



