The M AGOT, or BARB ARY APE*. 



OF all the apes without tails t, the magot 

 agrees befl; with the temperature of our 

 climate. We kept one feveral years. In fum- 

 mer, he delighted to be in the open air ; and, 

 in winter, he might be kept in a room without 

 fire. Though by no means delicate, he was al- 

 ways melancholy, and fometimes dirty. He 

 ufed the fame grimaces to mark his anger, or to 

 exprefs his appetite. His movements were brifk, 

 his manners grofs, and his afpe£t more ugly than 

 H 3 ridiculouSi 



* 



Barbary ape, with a long face, not unlike that of a dog ; 

 canine teeth long and ftrong ; ears like the human; nails flat ; 

 buttocks bare ; colour of the upper part of the body a dirty 

 greenifli brown ; belly of a dull pale yellow ; grows to above 

 the length of four feet ; Pinnanfs fynopf. of quad. p. lOO. 



Magot, the old French name of this ape, which we have a- 

 dopted. Momenet, according to Johnfton. It is likewife call- 

 ed Tartarin, becaufe it is very common in South Tartary. 



Cynophalus; AriJ}. Hift. aiihn. lih. 2. cap. 8. Pliiiii lib. ^i 

 cap. 54. Gefiier, quad. f. S59. Pnfper Alpin. Egypt, vol. i. pi 

 241. tab. 16. 



Simla cyiiocephala Le finge cynocephale; Brljon, 



quad. 



Simla inuus, ecaudata, uatibus calvis, capite oblongo; Linn, 

 M- '"'t- /-• 35- 



t It is certain that this ape has no tall, though there is 3s 

 flight appearance of one, formed by a fmall appendix of flciii 

 about half an inch long, and fituated above the anus. But 

 this appendix has no vertebrae, and is only a portion of fkin, 

 which adheres not inore to the coccix than to the' reft of tha 

 (kiu- 



