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!on, where, by Its familiarity, and even its ca 

 refles, it procured tire affedlion of thcfe to whofe 

 charge it was committed. But, notwithftanding 

 all the care and attention it received, it was una- 

 ble to refift the cold of the winter 1 764. It died, 

 to the regret of its mafter, who was fo obliging 

 as to fend it to me, to be placed in the Royal 

 Cabinet. I law another in the houfe of the 

 Marquis de Montmirail. This was a male, and 

 the former a female. Both were equally trac- 

 table and well tamed. Hence this fapajou, by 

 its mild and docile difpoiition, differs much from 

 the ou.uine and alouate, who are fo wild that 

 no art can tame them. Neither has it, like them, 

 an offeous pouch in the throat. Like the oua- 

 rine, its hair is black, but lough. The coaita 

 likewife differs from all the other fapajous, by 

 having only four fingers on his hands. By this 

 character and his prehenfile tail, he is eafily di- 

 ftinguiflied from the monkeys, who have all 

 five fingers, and a flaccid tail. 



The animal called exqiivna by Marcgrave, is 

 very nearly allied to the coaita, and is perhaps 

 only a variety of that fpecies. This author feems 

 to have been deceived when he tells us, that the 

 exquima is a native of Guiney and Congo. The 

 ■figure he has given of it was alone fufficient to 

 have convi#iced him of his error ; for it rcpre- 

 icnts this animal with a tail rolled up at the point, 

 a chara£ler which belongs cxclufively to the fa- 

 pajous. Of courfe, Marcgrave's exquima is not 



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