*rO THE PREACHER MONKEY. 



loose^ it snatched a Chinese Goldfifh out of a bason 

 of water, which it killed and greedily devoured. 

 After this, by way of trial, some small live Eels were 

 given to him, which frighted him much at first, by 

 twisting round his neck, he however soon called 

 forth resolution enough to master and eat them. 



A pair of these animals, which belonged to a 

 Mr. Cook, a merchant of London, who resided at 

 Lisbon, had young at that place. These at their 

 birth were excessively ugly, having little or no fur. 

 They would frequently cling very fast to the breasts 

 of the dam ; and Vs^hen they grew a little, they 

 used to hang on her back or shoulders. When she 

 was tired, she would rub them off against the wall 

 or whatever else was near, as the only mode of rid- 

 ding herself of them. On being forced from the 

 female, the male immediately took them to him, 

 and suffered them to hang round him for a while to 

 ease her of the burthen *. 



Their voice is a kind of shrill hissing note ; and 

 most of them have a musky smell. Linnasus re-* 

 marks that they are great enemies to cats ^. 



THE PREACHER MOXKEY |'. 



These animals are natives of the New Continent, 

 and found in vast numbers in the w^oods of Brazil 

 and Guiana. They are the largest of all the Ame- 



* Edwards's Glean, i. 15. pi. 218. t Gmel. i. 39- 



% Synonyms.— Simia Beelacbul. L/»;?.— Howling Baboon. Ban- 



f/v//.— Guariba. Marcgmve.—L'Oudnine. BuJJon Preaclicr McU' 



kcv. Pcunant. 



