The TAMARIN*, or Great-eared 

 Monkey. 



'HIS fpecies is much fmaller than the pre- 

 ceding, and differs from it in feveral cha- 

 raders. The tail of the tamarin is covered with 

 fliort hair, but that of the faki is garniflicd 

 with hair remarkably long. The tamarin has 

 alfo large ears, and yellow feet. It is a beauti- 

 ful animal t, very lively, and eafily tamed, but 



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* Great-eared monkey, with a round head, and a fwarthy, 

 flefli- coloured, naked face; upper lip a little divided; ears 

 very large, ereifl, naked, and almofl fquare ; hair on the fore- 

 head upright and long; on the body, fott, but fliaggy: The 

 head, whole body, and upper part of the limbs, black, except 

 the lower part of the back, which is tinged with yellow; 

 hands and feet covered with light orange coloured hairs, very 

 fine and fmooth ; nails long and crooked ; tail black, and 

 , twice the length of tlie body; teeth very white; Pennant's 

 Synvpf. of quad. p. 131. 



Cercopithecus minimus niger leontocephalus, auribus ele- 

 phancinis ; Barrere, Franc. Equin. p. 151. 



' Simla niidas, caudata, imberbis, labio fuperiore fiflb, auri- 

 bus quadratis nudis, unguibus fubulatis, pedibus croceis ; 

 Lirn. S\J}. Nat. p. 42. 



The little black monkey ; Edn.vards\i Hijl. of Birds, p. 196. 

 Tamarin, the name of this animal in Cayenne; Binet,p. 341. 

 f In Cayenne, there are very fmall monkeys called tavia- 

 rins, which are extremely beautiful. They exceed not the 

 fize of a fquirrel, and have the head and face of a lion, 

 fmall teeth as white as ivory, and arranged with great fym- 

 nictry. They ar? black, with yellowifli fpots on the ftioul- 



ders. 



