The M A I M O N, or Pig-tailed B A- 

 BOON*. 



THE apes, baboons, and monkeys, form 

 three tribes, with intervals between each, 

 the firft of which is filled by the magot, and the 

 fecond by the maimon. The latter conftitutes 

 the link or fhade between the baboons and 

 monkeys, as the magot does between the apes 

 and baboons. In efFeft, the maimon refembles 

 the baboons by the thicknefs and largenefs of his 

 muzzle, and by his fliort, arched tail; but he 

 differs from them, and approaches the monkeys, 

 by the fmallnefs of his fize, and the mildnefs of 

 his nature. Mr Edwards has given a figure and 

 defcription of the maimon, under the denomi- 

 nation of the pig- tailed ape. This peculiar cha- 



radler 



* Pig-tailed baboon, with a pointed face ; eyes hazel; a- 

 bove and beneath the mouth fome fe%v black hairs ; face naked 

 of a fwarthy rednefs ; two fharp canine teeth ; ears like the 

 human ; crown of the head dulky ; hair on the limbs and 

 body brown, inclining to afli - colon r ; paleft on the belly; 

 fingers black ; nails long and flat ; thumbs on the hind feet 

 very long, conneifled to the neareft toe by a broad membrane ; 

 tall four inches long, exactly like a pig's, and almoit naked; 

 the bare fpaces on the rump red, and but fniall ; length from 

 head to tail twenty-two inches. 



Pig tailed monkey ; Ednvards, p. 8. 



Simla Nemeftrina, femicaudata, fub-barbata, grifea, iridibus 

 brunneis, natibus calvis ; Liiiii. Syji. Nat. t: 55. Brit. Muf. 



