146 RED MONKEY. 



' aflemble to the number of forty or fifty. One 

 ' of them ftands fencinel on a tree, liftens, and 

 ' looks about on all fides, while the others ate 

 ' bufy. V/hen he perceives any perfon, he fets 

 ' up loud fhrieks to alarm the band, who obey 

 ' the iignal, fly off with their picy, leaping from 

 ' tree to tree with prodigious agility. The fe- 

 ^ males, who carry their young in their arms, fly 

 ' with the reft, and leap as if they were loaded 

 * with no burden *.' 



Though, in every region of Africa, the fpccies 

 of apes, baboons, and monkeys, are very nume- 

 rous, fome of which are pretty fimilar ; yet it is 

 remarked by travellers, that they never intermix, 

 and that each fpecies commonly inhabits a 

 different quarter of the country t. 



D'ljlindlve Charaflers of this Species. 



The patas has cheek- pouches and caliofities 

 on his buttocks. His tail is as long as both his 

 body and head. The top of his head is flat. 

 His muzzle, body, and legs, are long. He has 

 black hair on his nofe, and a narrow band of the 

 fame colour above his eyes, which extends fror? 

 cur to ear. The hair on the upper parts of hil 



body 



* Voyage de Ic Maire, p. 103. 



t Ic would be cndlefs to dcfcribc all the fpecies of apei 

 which are found from Arquin to Sierra- Leona. It is remark" 

 able, that they do not intermix, and that two kinds are nevejj 

 feen in tlie fame quarter ; Hift. gen. des voyages, tern. 2. />. 22I. 



