i86 THECOAITA 



a monkey of Guiney, but a fapajou with a pre- 

 henfile tail, which had been tranTported thither 

 from Brafil. The name exquima^ or quima, by 

 abftra£ting the article ex, and which ought to be 

 pronounced quoima, is not very different from 

 quoaita, the manner in which feveral authors 

 fpell the name coaita. Hence every circum- 

 ftance concurs in ertabhfhing Marcgrave's exqui- 

 ma, which he calls a Guiney monkey, to be a 

 'Brafilia.n /ap<ijou, and a variety only of the co- 

 aita, which it re'embles in difpofition, fize, co- 

 lour, and the prehenfile tail. 1 he moft remark- 

 able difference is, that the exquima has whitifh 

 hair on the belly, and a white beard, two inches 

 long, under the chin * : Our coaitas have neither 

 a beard nor white hair on the belly. But thefe 

 differences feem not fufficient to conftitute two 

 diflind: fpecies; for we learn from the evidence 

 of travellers, that fome coaitas are black and 

 others white, and fome have beards and others 

 no beards. ' There are,' fays Dampier, ' great 



* droves of monkeys, fome of them white, but 



* moll ot them -black; fome have beards, others 



' are 



* Cercopithecus barbatus Guineenfis ; in Congo vocatur 

 Exquima-, pilos habet fufcos, fed per totum dorfum quart adii- 

 ftos feu ferruginens ; fufcis autem punclulatim infperfus color 

 albus ; venter albicat et meptura inferius; barbam quoque c- 

 gregie albam habet, conflantem capillis duos digitoS Jongis 

 et amplius patfis quart ordinatim pe.\a fuiffet ; quando haec 

 fpecies ii afci'tur, os ample diduccnJo et roandibulas celeritcr 

 niovendo, eragitat liominem ; egrcgie faltant, varies fruiflus 

 comedunt; Marcgr. Hif. iiat. Brajll. p. zz-]. ct Z2%. Ube vide 

 figuram. 



