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 This very curious creature may be confidered as one of the rarell of its 

 tribe, and is not often to be feen in Europe. It is however fometimes ob- 

 tained, and exJiibits at once the moft beautiful and Hvely colours of any fpe- 

 cies yet known, and at the fame time an appearance in the higheft degree 

 Angular and ftriking. It is an animal of very confiderablc fize, having been 

 fometimes fcen more than five feet high. Its form is uncommonly ftrong 

 and mufcular, while die great length and thicknefs of the hair on the 

 fuperior parts of the body ftill adds to this appearance of ftrength and vi- 

 gour. The eyes (which are placed very clofe or near each other,) are of a 

 deep hazel. Down the middle of the nofe from the eyes runs a broad band 

 of vivid vermilion red, which difFufes itfelf over the tip of the fnout, which 

 has a fomewhat abrupt termination, in fome degree approaching to that of a 

 hog. The fides of the nofe are of a very fine violaceous blue, and are very 

 ftrongly marked by feveral deep furrows in an oblique diredlron. The re- 

 mainder of the face is of a pale dull whitifh yellow. On the top of the front 

 the hair rifes in a very remarkable manner into a pointed form. Beneath 

 the chin is a pointed beard of a light orange-yellow. The teeth (as the 

 figure well expreffes,) are moft extremely ftrong and large. Round the back 

 of the neck the hair is much longer than on other parts, and inclines down- 

 wards on the fore parts, fomewhat in the manner of a wreath or tippet. 



The general colour of the animal is an olivaceoiis-yellovz-brown, with a 

 caft of blackifti on the outfide of the limbs and back ; but is much lighter 

 or almoft whitifti in front of the body; and on the projecting tippet of the 

 neck and round the hips it has a flight tinge of violet-brown. Round the 

 region of the loins the fkin is almoft bare, and is of a moft beautiful violet- 

 blue^ which gradually alters into a vivid vermilion, which is more confpicuous 



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