THE CALLITRIX, OR i6r 



that it was one of thofe long-tailed monkeys to 

 which they gave the name of ailhtrix. In the 

 neighbourhood of Egypt, both on the iEthiopian 

 and Arabian tide, there are white monkeys, 

 which the ancients have likewife denoted by the 

 generic name of fi?//i/'ix. Profper Alpinusand 

 Pietro della Valle "^ mention thefe white nion- 

 keys. We have not fcen this fpecies : It is 

 perhaps only a variety of the green monkey, or 

 of the vio7ia, which is very common in thefc 

 countries. 



The green monkey feems alfo to be found in 

 Senegal, as well as in Mauritania and the Cape 

 de Verd iflands. M. Adanfon relates, that the 

 woods of Podor, along the river Niger, are fil- 

 led with green apes, ' 1 difcovcred apes,' fays he, 

 only by the branches they throw down from 

 the tops of the trees; for, in other refpedls, they 

 are fo filent and nimble in their gambols, that 

 it would be difficult to perceive them. I killed 

 one, two, and even three, before the others 

 fecmed to be alarmed. However, after moft of 

 them were wounded, they began to take fhel- 

 ^ Vol. Vill. L « ter ; 



• Simium Callitrichum Cairi in aedibiis habuirniis, felem 

 magnam qiiadamtenus magnitudine aemulantem, prolixiori 



corporis fif^uru, capita parvo erat et rotundo corpore circa 



ilia graciliirnno, toto corpore rufo rutilove fpecTabatur, facies 

 vero humanae (imilis fuit nigra, undiquc barbata, fed barba 



aibi erat colorls caudamque longam rutilamqu^ habebat ; 



I'roff). Alp. Hi/}. IF.gypt. lib. 4. />. 244.^5'. ''''^- ^o. N0.4. In 



Cairo, I likewife faw feveral living animals, as callifrices, or 

 white monkeys ; Voyage de Pletro ddla Valle, torn. i. />. 401. 



