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Dijlincl'roe Characlcrs of this Species. 



The douc has no callofities on the buttocks, 

 but is every where covered with hair. His tail 

 is not fu long as his body and head. His face 

 is covered \\n\\ a reddilh down. The ears are 

 naked, and of the {:tme colour with the face. 

 The Hps, as well as the orbits of the eyes, are 

 brown. The colours of the hair are vivid and 

 various. He has a purplifh brov.'n collar round 

 his neck. He has white on his front, head, 

 body, arms, legs, &c. and a kind of yellowifii 

 white beard. The top of the front and the up- 

 per part of the arms, are black. The under 

 parts of the body are of a cinereous gray and a 

 whitilli yellow colour. The tail and under part 

 of the loins are white. He walks as often on 

 two as on four feet. When ered, he is three 

 and a half or four feet high. It is unceitain 

 whether the females of this fpecies be fibjeft to 

 the menftrual dilcharge. 



The 



flying fiom danger. Thefe ftoncs are dearer and more e- 

 fteemed than any other kind : They are likewife round, and 

 have more powerful virtues. One grain of this bezoar has 

 been found to have an equal effeft with two of that produced 

 by the goats; Defcript. Hijl. dc Alacacar, p 51. Nofa. 

 From comparing this pafTage with that of Knox, related ia 

 the article ouan.ierou, it appears, that the ouancierous feed up- 

 on the buds of trees, and, of courfe, moil commonly produce 

 bezoars. 



