The SAJOU *, or Capuchin Monkey. 



WE are acquainted with two varieties of 

 this fpecies, the broivnfajou, or capu- 

 chin monkey; and the gray Jlijou, which dif- 

 fers from the brown in colour only. They are 

 Vol. VIII. N both 



* The capuchin monkey, with a round head, and a fliort 

 fiefh-coloured face, with a little down on it ; hair on the 

 fore head more or lefs high and treii in dilTerent fubjefls ; 

 top of the head black and dulTcy, hair on it pretty long ; 

 hind part of the neck, and middle of the back, covered with 

 long dulky hairs ; reft of the back and the limbs of a reddifh 

 brown ; hands and feet covered with a large Ikin ; tail long- 

 er than the head and body, and often carried over the flioul- 

 ders ; the hair on it very long, of a deep brown colour, and 

 appears very bufhy from beginning to end : It is a fpecies that 

 varies a little in colours, which induced Linnaeus to form 

 three fpecies of this one ; Pi-nnant's fynopf. of quad. p. 126. 



Sajou, a word abridged irom CayouaJJ'm or Sajouaffou, the 

 name of thefe animals in Maragnoii. 



Simla trepida, caudata, imberbis, capillitio arreilo, nianlbus 

 pedibufque caeruleis, cauda prehcnfili villofa ; Litm. Jvft. nati 

 P- »39- 



Simia capucina, caudata, imberbis, fufca, cauda prehcn- 

 fili hirfuta, pileo artubufqtie nigris, natibus teflis ; Linn. Jyfii 

 nat. p. 42. 



Simia apella, caudata, imberbis, cauda fubprehenfili, cbr- 

 pore fufco, pedibus nigris, natibus tedis ; Ibid. 



Cercopithecus fufcus, capitis vertice fufco ; Briffh/:. quctdi 

 P- 137- 



^ufh-tailed monkey ; Ed'vj. p. 312. 



Simiolus C.yloaicus ; S:h. Muf. torn. 1. p. 77. fab. 48. This 

 animal is not I'ound in Ceylon, but in America. 



Cayouaflbu ; Ml^. du P. d' Abbeville, p. 252.- 



