The OUISTITI*, or Striated Monkey. 



THE Ouiftitl is flill fmaller than the tama- 

 rin, both the head anJ body not exceeding 

 half a foot in length. His tail is more than a 

 foot long, and, like that of the maucauco, mark- 

 ed with alternate rings of black and white; 

 I the hair on the tail is ftill ftronger, and more 

 , bulhy than that of the maucauco. The fa^e of 

 I the ouiltiti is naked, and of a dark flefh -colour. 

 ! He 



* 



Oxiftiti, a found articulated by this animal, and which 

 we have adopted for its name. 



The ilriated monkey, with a very round head. About the 

 ears are two very full tufts of white hairs ftanding out on 

 each fide; irides reddilh ; face a fwarthy flefh-colour ; ears 

 like the human ; head black ; body alh-coloured, reddifli, and 

 duiky, the iaft forms ftriated bars crofs the body ; tall full of 

 hair, annulated with alh- colour and black ; body feven inches 

 lona; ; tall near eleven ; hands and feet covered with fhort 

 hairs ; tingers like thofe of a fquirrel ; nails or rather claws, 

 Iharp ; Pennant's fy nop f. of quad. p. 132. 



Galeoplthecus, fugoin a Brafillenfibus nomioatus ; Gefner. 

 Icon. quad. p. 96. 



Sagouy ; Mifion auMaragnon, par le P. d'AbhuviHey p. 252. 

 Cagui minor ; .Marcvr. Hifl. Nut. Braftl.p. 227. 



Cercopithecus Brafiliamis tertius,yr7^5z«>z; Chif Exot. p. 372. 

 Gefner. quad. p. 869. Rati Sviopf. quad. p. 154. Klfin. quad. 

 p. 87. trth 7,. Ludolph. Com. Ethiop. p. 58. 



Cerrnpith'jcus teniis tranfverfis alternatim fufcis, et e cine- 

 ren albis variegatus, auiiculls pills albis circUrndatis ; BriJJon, 

 \nad. p. 143. 



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