2o6 THE OUISTITI. 



He has two tufts of long white hair before his 

 ears, which conceal them when we look the a- 

 nimal in the face. Mr Parfons has given a good 

 defcription of this animal in the Philofophical 

 Tranfadtions *; and Mr Edwards, in his Glean- 

 ings, has given an excellent figure of it. He 

 remarks, that, of feveral he law, the largefl: 

 weighed not above fix ounces, and the fmalleft 

 only four and a half; and judicioufly adds, 

 That the fuppofition that the fmall ^Ethiopian 

 monkey mentioned by Ludolph, under the de- 

 nomination of/oiihs, or guerdza, was the fame 

 animal with the ouiftiti, has no foundation "j". It 

 is certain, that neither the ouiftiti, nor any other 

 fagoin, exifts in ^Ethiopia ; and the fonkes or 

 giiereza of Ludolph is probably the maucauco or 

 Ions, which are common in the fouthern regions 

 of the Old Continent. Mr b.dwards farther re 

 marks, that, when the ouiftiti is in good health, 

 its hair is very builiy j that one of thofe he faw, 



which 



Simla Jacciis, caudata, auiibus villofis patulis, cauda hir- 

 futiffima, - curvata, unguibus fubulacis, pollicum rotundatis : 

 Linn.fyjl. Nat. p. 40. 



* Phil. Tranf. vol. 47. p. 146. 



f J. Ludolphus, in his hiftory of ^Ethiopia ov Abydinia, 

 hath given two figures of this animal. They aie dcfcribcd, 

 ■p. 58. in the Englilh tranflalion of that work. He calls it 

 Fonkes, or Gticrcza ; but his defcription doth not agree at alf 

 with the figures : So that I imagine this was met with in' 

 Holland, and fuppofed to be the little monkey defcribed by 

 Iiudolplui!., thoi!c;h it was really brought fro'm Brafil, whicW 

 was poflclfed by the Hollanders at the time of the publicationr 

 of that hiftory ; Edvjards's Gkamngs, p. 1 6. 



