The MONA *, or varied MONKEY. 



THE mona is the mod common of the mon- 

 keys. We had one alive for feveral years. 

 The mona and the magot agree beft with the 

 temperature of our climate. This circumftance 

 is alone fufficient to prove, that the mona is not 

 a native of the fouthern regions of Africa and 

 the Eafl Indies ; and, in fad:, it is found in Bar- 

 bary, Arabia, Perfia, and other parts of Afia 



which 



• Mone, tmiia, inoKwa, mounina, the names of the long-tail- 

 ed monkeys in the More(k, Spaailli, and Provenjal languages. 

 f^' Peperiuntur in Mauritaniae fylvis limiarum variae 



♦ fpecies, quarum quae caudam gerunt Monae dicuntur ;' 

 Leo. Afric. Defcrip. vol. 2. p. 757. ' Simiae caudate et 



• barbatae, quae vulgo Monichi vocantur ;' Profpar. /ilpiti. Hift. 

 Egypt, p. 2+2- Nota. The term Monkey, which the Britilh 

 give to the long-tailed apes, is derived from monichi ; and 

 both feem to come from mona, or manina, the original names 

 of thefe animals. 



Varied monkey, with a fiiort thick nofe, of a dirty flefii 

 colour ; hair on the fides of the face, and under the throat, 

 long ; the colour yellow and black ; on the forehead, gray ; 

 above the eyes, from ear to ear, a black line ; the upper 

 part of the body du(ky and red ; the belly wlutifh ; outfide 

 of .the thighs, and the feet, black ; the tail of a cinereous 

 brown ; length about a foot and a half, the tall above two ; 

 Pennant's fynopf. of quad. p. 118. 



Kehoi, and Kipor, names by which the Greeks and Arabs 

 denote the long-tailed apes, with variegated colours. 



Cercopithecus pilis ex nigro et rufo variegatis veftitus, pedi- 

 bus nigrisj Cauda cinerea : Le finge varic ; Brijon. qtiOit 

 p. 141. 



