CRESTED MONKEY. 



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animals first discovered by their patron. Whether this 

 was done^ however, in the present instance, is somewhat 

 uncertain ; but the general fact is unquestionable, and 

 will serve to explain why 

 nearly aU the new quadru- 

 peds of Sumatra, discovered 

 by sir Stamford Raffles, have 

 received different names 

 from his French assistants. 

 M. F. Cuvier, in his beau- 

 tiful, but not very scien- 

 tific, work on quadrupeds, 

 has figured the S. comatus 

 (of which the head alone is 

 here copied, fig. 3.) ; while 

 the description of sir Stam- 

 ford's S. cristata is nearly 

 as follows : — 

 The length of the body is about two feet; the tail 

 measuring near two and a half : when the animal stands 

 on all fours, it is fourteen inches high. The colour is 

 dark grey ; the hairs being in general black with white 

 points. The face, fore arms, hands, feet, back, and 

 upper part of the body is pale. (The same colour, in a 

 horse, would be called iron-grey, or grey with black 

 points.) The disposition of the hairs on the head is 

 peculiar ; they are long, and diverge round the face, 

 forming on the top a kind of crest : the beard is scanty: 

 face and ears naked, and nearly black : orbits large : 

 nose rather elevated between the orbits, but quite flat 

 at the nostrils, which are situated at some distance above 

 the upper lip, and open laterally: the head and face are 

 small ; the ears large and rounded ; the canines long ; 

 the neck short ; and the tail thin, tapering, and without 

 a tuft : the fore thumbs are remarkably short ; and the 

 whole form light and slender. The young are of a red- 

 dish fawn-colour; forming a singular contrast to the 

 dark-coloured adults. 



