The PINCHE*, or Red-tailed Monkey. 



THEPinche, though very fmall, is larger 

 than either the ouiftiti or the tamarin. 

 Inchiding head and body, it is about nine inches 

 long, and the length of the tail is, at leaft, 

 eighteen inches. It is rendered remarkable by 

 a kind of fmooth white hair upon the top and 

 fides of the head, efpeciallyas this colour is won- 

 derfully contrafted by that of the face, which is 

 black, and interfperfed with a gray down. The 

 eyes are black, and the tail, from its origin to 

 near the middle, is of a lively red, where it 

 changes to a brownifli black, which continues 



O 2 to 



* Pinche, the name of this animal at Maynas ; Condamine's 

 voy. />. 83. 



Red-tailed monkey with a round head and black pointed 

 face; ears round and diilky; hair on the head white, long, 

 and fpreading over the llioulders: The fhoulders and back 

 are covered with long and loofe brown hairs; rump and half 

 the tall deep orange coloured, almoft rsd; the remaining part 

 black; the throat black; breaft, belly, and legs white; in- 

 i'.des of the hands and feet black; claws crooked and fharp; 

 length of the head and body eight inches ; tail above twice 

 as long; Petw.ani' s Synopf. cf quad. p. 134. 



Cercopithecus pills ex fufco et rufo veftitus, facie ultra au- 

 . riculas ufque nuda et nigia, vertice longls pilis obflta ; Brijon. 

 quad. f. 1 50. 



Simla Oedipus, caudata, imberbis, capillo dependente, Cau- 

 da rubra, unguibus fubulatis ; Linn. S-jl. Nat. />• 41. 



The little lion monkey; Ed'wnrds's Hijl. of Birds., />. IQ5;. 



