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fhort and fquat, his head and muzzle large, his 

 nofe flat, his cheeks wrinkled, and, at the fatatf 

 time, he exceeds moft of the other monkeys 'm 

 fize. He is alfo extremely ugly ; fo that he; 

 might be regarded as a fmall fpecies of baboon, 

 if his tail were not long and builiy, while that 

 of the baboons in general is very fhort. This 

 fpecies is a native of Congo, and other fouthem 

 provinces of Africa. it is numerous, and 

 fubje(fl to feveral varieties in fize, in colour, and 

 in the difpofition of the hair. The body of that 

 defcribed by HaiTelquift was more than two feet 

 long ; and thofe we have ken exceed not a 

 foot and a half. The one we have denominated 

 egret, becauTe it has a creftor tuft of hair on the 

 top of the head, appears to be only a variety of 

 the macaque, which it refembles in every article, 

 except this and fome other flight differences in 

 the hair. They are both of mild manners, and 

 extremely tradable. But, independent of a dlf- 

 agreeable mufky odour which they both diffufe, 

 they arefo dirty, fo ugly, and fo loathfome, that, 

 when they make their grimaces, they cannot be 

 viewed without horror and difgufl:. Thefe 

 monkeys go often in troopa, efpeclally in their 

 expeditions to rob gardens. Bofman relates, 

 that they take in each paw a quantity of millet, 



and 



Cercopithecus Angolenfis, Macaquo Caudam por- 



fat arcuatam . . . ClzmM. kah, hah; denies habet albiffi- 

 mos. . . . Penem habet humano fimilem, inflar puerj ; 

 Marcgr. Hifi. Naf. Brafil. /■. 227. 



