The SAI*, or WEEPER. 



"E have feen two virieties of this fpecies ; 

 the firft was of a blackilh brown co- 

 lour ; and the fecond, which I have called Sat 

 nvitb ^i ivbite throat, has white hair on the 

 breaft, throat, and round the ears and cheeks. 

 It diffeis from the firft by having lefs hair on 

 the face. But, in every other article, they per- 

 fedly refemhle each other. Their difpofitions, 

 fize, and figure, are the fame. I ravellers have 

 mentioned thefe animah under the name of 

 iveepers t ; becaufe they make a plaintive noife, 

 and, when irritated, have the appearance of 

 crying. Others have called them oiujk monkeys^ 



becaufe, 



• Cay, pronounced S,a'i, the Brafilian name of this animal. 



Monkey with a rounj and flat face, with a reddilh brown 

 colour, very deformed ; the hair on the head and upper part 

 of the body black, tinged with brown ; beneath, and on the 

 limbs, tinged with red ; tail black, and much longer than 

 the head and body : The young are exceflively deformed ; 

 their hair very long, and thinly difperfed ; Pennant's Jjnopf. 

 of quad. p. I 27. 



Cercopithecus Brafilienfis fecundus ; Cluf. exot. p. 372. 



Cay ; De Lact, p. 486. Rail f\n. quad. p. 155. 



Cercopithecus totus niger ; Brifon. quad. p. 139. 



f In the illand of St George, two leagues dillant from the 

 continent of America, there are monkeys called iveepers, be- 

 caufe they imitate the cries of an infant : Voyage dc la Gtntil, 

 tan. I. p. 15. 



