66 MAMMALIA. 
a tail—/S. nigra, Cuy.; but whose head resembles that of the 
rest. The 
MAnpRILLs, 
Of all the monkeys, have the longest muzzle (30°); their tail is 
very short; they are brutal and ferocious; nose as in the preceding. 
Sim. maimon and mormon, Lin.; Boggo, Choras, Buff. XIV, 
XVI, XVII, et Supp. VII, 9. (The Mandrill.) Greyish brown, 
inclining to olive above; cheeks blue and furrowed. The 
nose in the adult male becomes red, particularly at the end, 
where it is scarlet, which has been the cause of its being 
deemed, erroneously, a distinct species.(1) The genital parts, 
and those about the anus, are of the same colour. The buttocks 
are ofa beautiful violet. It is difficult to imagine a more hide- 
ous or extraordinary animal. He nearly attains the size ofa 
man, and is a terror to the negroes of Guinea. Many details 
of his history have been mixed up with that of the Chimpansé, 
and consequently with that of the Ourang-Outang. 
Sim. leucophza, Fred. Cuy. Ann. du Mus. d’Hist. Nat. IX, 
pl. 37, from a young specimen, and Hist. des Mammif. from 
the adult. (The Drill.) Yellowish grey; face black; tail 
_ very short and thin; in old ones the fur becomes darker, 
_and the chin ofa brilliant red. 
Ture Monxerys or AMERICA 
_ Have four grinders more than the others—thirty-six in all; the » 
tail long ; no cheek-pouches ; buttocks hairy; no callosities ; nostrils 
opening on the sides of the nose, and not underneath. All the great 
Quadrumana of America belong to this division. The large intes- 
tines are less inflated, and the cecum longerand more slender than 
in those of the eastern continent. 
The tails of some of them are prehensile—that is, their extremity 
can twist round a body with sufficient force to seize it as with a 
hand. They are more particularly designated by the name of Sapa- 
jous, Cebus, Erxleben.(2) 
ut their ‘hicad may be placed the Alouattes (Mycrrss, Illig.), 
which are distinguished by a pyramidal head, the upper jaw of which 
descends much below the cranium, as the branches of the lower one 
(1) 1 have seen, as well as M. Geoffroy, two or three Mandrills, or S. maimon, 
change to the Choras or S. mormon, in the Menagerie of the Museum. The tuft — 
_of hair, which is frequently given as a se ge ae of the mormon, is often also in 
the maimon. 
(2) Cebus or Cepus, or Kuzres, names of an Ethiopian Monkey, which, ee the 
description of Elian, lib. xxvii, c. 8, must haye been the Patas. - 
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