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of the muzzle and tall, in the manner of car- 

 rying the latter, and in the varieties of colour, 

 they feem to form the (hade between the makis 

 and the guenons, or long-tailed monkeys. 



Dijliufli'ue CharaElers of this Species. 



The mangabey has cheek-pouches and callo- 

 fities on the buttocks. The tail is as long as 

 both the body and head. He has a prominent 

 ring round the eyes, and the upper eye-lid is 

 extremely white. The muzzle is thick and long. 

 The eye-brows confift of ftiff, crifped hair, and 

 the ears are black and almoft naked. The 

 hair on the fuperior parts of the body is brown, 

 and that on the inferior is gray. There are va- 

 rieties in this fpecies : Some of them are of a 

 uniform colour ; others have a white circle 

 round the neck, and round the cheeks, in the 

 form of a beard. They walk on four feet, and 

 are nearly a foot and a half long, from the ex- 

 tremity of the muzzle to the origin of the tail. 

 The females of thefe fpecies menftruate. 



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