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bccaufe, like the maucauco, they have a mufky 

 odour*. Others have given them the name of 

 macaque "f", which they borrowed from the ma- 

 caque of Guiney. But the macaques are mon- 

 keys with flaccid tails ; while the former belong 

 to the fapajous, becaufe their tails are prehenfile. 

 1 he females have only two paps, and produce 

 two young at ?. time. They are mild, docile, 

 and To timid, that their common cry, which re- 

 fembles that of a rat, becomes a kind of groan- 

 ing when they are threatened with danger. In 

 this country, they eat May-hugs and fnails ^ if^ 

 prefeience to all other food. But, in Brafi], 

 their native climate, they live chiefly on grains 

 and wild fruits ||, wiiich they gather from the 

 trees, and rarely defcend upon the earth. 



N 3 Difatinive 



* In the neighbourhood of the bay of All Saints, there are 

 fmall monkeys, who are extremely ugly, and have a great 

 fcent of mufK ; Darnp'ur' s voyages. 



f At the bay of All Saints, I faw two fpecies of raonkeys, 

 the one called yrf^oa/'^^j, and the other iiiacaqiies. The tk^uuini 

 are of the flze oi a fquirrel. Some of tiieni are gray, and o- 

 thers of a fine yellow colour. They are extremely beautiful. 



The macaques are larger, and of a brown colour ; 



They weep perpetually, dec. ; P'oyages de di Gemiei, par Froger, 

 p. 150. 



X All the monkeys of South America live upon fruits, 

 liovi-ers, and particular infcdi ; Jiiji. Jes Avantururs, par Oex- 

 melin, torn. 2. p. 256. 



II The Cais or Sais never remove from the top of a tree 

 that bears fruit in a pod as large as our beans, which is their 

 principal food. They affemble in troops, and particularly 

 when it rains. It is pieafant to hear them chattering on the 

 trees. The female produces but one at a time; and the young. 



