The COAITA* and EXQUIMAf, 



NEXT to the ouarine and alouate, the co- 

 aita is the largeft of the fapajous. I law- 

 one of them at the palace of the Duke of Bouil- 

 lon, 



* Four-fingered monkey, with a long flat face, of a fwar- 

 thy flefh colour ; eyes funk in the head ; ears like the human ; 

 limbs ot a great length, and uncommonly flender ; hair black, 

 long, and rough; only four fingers on the hand, being quite 

 deftitute of a thumb; five toes on the feet; nails flat; tail 

 long, and naked below, near the end ; body flender ; about a 

 foot and a half long ; tail near two feet, and fo prehenfile as 

 to ferve every piirpofe of a hand. 



Ccaita, or quouta, the name of this animal in Guiana. 



Cercopithccus major nigcr, faciem hunianam rcferens. S^uc- 

 aia ; Barrhre HiJL nat. de la Franc. Equin. p. 150. 



Quato ; Bancroft's Guiana, p. 131. 



Cercopithecus in pedibus anterioribus pollice carens ; cauda 

 jnferius verfus apicsm pilis dellituta ; Le Belzebub ; Brifon. 

 quad. /. 150. 



Simia panifcus, caudata, imbetbis, atra, cauda prehenfili, 

 St apicem fubtus nuda ; Li?:>i. Syji. nat. p. 37. 



Spider monkey ; EJivardi's Gleanings, till. 3. />. 22:. 



Simia fufca major, palmis tctrada(ftylis, cauda prehenfili, 

 ad apicem fubtus nudu ; the four-fingered monkey ; Brown's 

 H'ijl. of Jamaica, chap. ^. jefi. 5. 



f Spotted monkey, >vith a long white beard ; colour of 

 ihe upper parts of the body reddifli, as if they had been fin- 

 gcd", marked with white fpecks; the belly and chin whitilli; 

 jail very long; Is a fpecies of a middle fize. 



Cercopithecus Barbatus Guineenlis, Exquima; Marcgrav. 

 Hi/}. Nat. Brafl. p. 227. Rai: Syn. quad. p. J56. 



Cercopithecus harbatus fufcus, punclis albis interfperfis, 

 barba alba ; Briffon. quad. p. 147. No. 23. p. 148. No. 24. 



Simia Diana, caudata, barbata, fronte baibaque faftigiata; 

 Hiinn-fxfl- nat. p. 38. 



