THE DIANA MONKEY, 
CERCOPITHECUS DIANA. Georr. 
Tue Diana Monkey, so called by Linneus from the 
fancied resemblance of the crescent-shaped bar which 
ornaments its brow to the ancient poetical represen- 
tations of the goddess of the silver bow, was first 
figured by Marcgrave, in his Natural History of Brasil, 
under the name of Exquima, by which, according to 
him, it was known to the negroes of Congo, its native 
land. No subsequent naturalist appears to have ob- 
served it until Linneeus carefully described and figured 
it, in the Stockholm Transactions for 1754, from a 
living specimen, and gave a long and highly interesting 
account of its habits and behaviour. But this paper, 
probably on account of its bemg written in Swedish, 
or perhaps in consequence of the affected contempt 
with which the great French Natural Historian was 
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