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fquat, and of a more ferocious and umradable 

 difpofition. 



There are fome varieties in this fpecies. \^ ^ 

 have feen magots of different fizes, and with 

 hair more or lefs deeply coloured, and more or 

 lefs bulhy. It even appears, that the five ani- 

 mals defcribed and drawn by Profper Alpinusj 

 under the denomination of cynocephali*-, are all 

 magots, which differ only in magnitude, and ia 

 fome other charaders too flight to conftitute 

 diftind fpecies. It likewife appears that the 

 fpecies is pretty generally diffufed over all the 

 warm climates of the Old Continent, and that 

 they are found in Tartary, Arabia, jEthiopiaj 

 Malabar, Barbary, Mauritania, and as far aS 



the Cape of Good Hope $. 



D IJiin^rivs 



* ?rofper; Alpin. Hift. Nat. -/Egypt. Hb. 4. tab. 15. fig- !• 

 tt tab 16. 17. 18. 19. 



f The third fpecies of Malabarian ape is afh-coloureJ, and 

 has no tail, or a very fliort one. It is familiar, and ealily ap- 

 prehends what it is taught. — I received or;e in a; jjrclent, and 

 1 once thought proper to beat it ; but its cries brought a- 

 bout me fuch a number of its neighbours in a -wild Hate, that, 

 to prevent accidents, I rsftored it to liberty; Voyage dii P. 

 Vincent Mar'm^ ^. 40 j. 



X It is probal)ly this fpecies of ape -which Robert Lade 

 mentions in the following terms : ' We traverfed a large 

 « mountain in the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 < and amuled ourfelves with hunting large apes, which are very 



' numerous in that place. 1 can neither defcribe all the 



« arts praftifed by thefc animals, nor the nimblencfs and im- 

 ' pudence wilh which tliey returned, after being purfued by 

 ' us. Sometimes they allowed us to approach fo near them,- 

 * 4>at 1 was almoft certain of feiziiig them. Lut, wlien I made 



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