The MICO*, or fair MONKEY. 



WE owe our knowledge of this animal to 

 M. de la Condaniine ; and, therefore, 

 we fhall tranfcribe the account he has given of 

 t : ' The monkey, of which the Governour of 

 Para made me a prefent, is the only one of 

 the kind that had been feen in this country. 

 The hair on its body was of a beautiful filvery 

 white colour; and that on its tail was a fliining 

 chefnut approaching to black. Its ears, cheeks, 

 and muzzle, were of fo lively a vermilion, 

 that it had the appearance of being the work 

 of art. I kept it twelve months ; and, when 

 almoft in fight of the French coaft, it was 

 ftill alive. But, notwithftanding all my pre- 

 cautions to defend it againif the cold, it fell a 

 vidlim to the rigour of the feafon before my 

 arrival. ... I have preferved it in aqua- 

 vitae, which will be fufEcient to fliow that 



* my 



• The fair monkey, with a fmall lound head ; face and 

 ears of the mod lively vermilion colour ; body covered with 

 mod beautiful long hairs of a bright and filvery whitencfs, of 

 matchlefs elegance; tail of a fliining dark chefnut; head and 

 body eight inches long; tail twelve; Pciir.ani' s fynopf. of niiad. 



P- 134- 



Cercopitheciis ex cinerco albus argenteus, facie auricuiifque 

 rubris fplendentibus, cauda caftanci coloris ; BriJJon. quad, 

 f. 142. 



