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a fapajou of the fame fpccies, or, at leaft, of a 

 Ipccies very nearly allied to that of the coaita. 



We muft likewife remaik, that, if the animal 

 mentioned by Linnaeus, unJer the name of 

 Diana *, is really, as he fays, the exquima of 

 Marcgrave, he has omitted the prehenfile tail, 

 which is the mofl: effential character, and ought 

 alone to determine whether this diuna belongs 

 to ihe genus g^ ppajaus or to that of the monkeys, 

 and, of couife, whether it is found in the Old 

 or the New Continent. 



Independent of this variety, the characters of j 

 which are confpicuous, theie are other varieties, ■ 

 though lefs remarkable, in the fpecies ot the co- 

 aita. That defcribed by IVi. ijnflon had whitifti 

 hair on all the under pjrts of the body. But 

 thofe 1 have feen were entirely black, and had 

 very few hairs on the inferior parts of the body, 

 where the fkin appeared, and was equally black 

 with the hair. Of the two coaitas mention- 

 ed by Mr Edwards "f, the one was black and 



the 



• Diana fimia caudata barbata, fronte barbaque fafligiata. 



Cercopithecus barbatus Guineenfis, Marcgravii. Habitat 



in Guinea, magnitudo felis majoris ; nigra punclis albidis. 

 Dorfum poftice fernigineum, femor fiibtus helvoia, gula pec- . 

 tufque alba, frons pilis ereiflis albis falligiatas, linea tranfverfa 

 in formam lunac crefcentis, barba faliigiatas nigra fubtus alba 

 jnGdens tuberi adipolb, linea alba ab ano ad genua ab extcriori 

 latere fomorum du(51a. Ludibunda omnia dcjicic, peregrines 

 nulitando falutat, irata ore hiat niaxillafquc cxagitat ; vocat^ 

 refpondet greek ; Linn. S\fl. not. p. 38. 



j- Gleanings, p. 222. 



