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The Magots 



Have a full and moderately long muzzle. A small 

 tubercle instead of tail. 



The Magot, or Barbary Ape. (Simia Sylvanus, Pitheeus 

 and Inuus, Gm. Schr.) Buffon XIV. vn. vin*. 



Covered altogether with hair, of a clear grayish. 

 Of all the monkeys, it is that which most easily 

 endures our climates; it it an aboriginal of 

 Barbary, from whence it is frequently brought 

 into Europe. It sometimes proves productive 

 in these countries, and has been even naturalized 

 in the least accessible parts of the rock of 

 Gibraltar. 



The Macaques t 



Are distinguished from the Magots by a tail more or 

 less long, and from the cynocephala, because their 



*The Pitheeus described by Buffon was a young Magot. 

 Also his little Cynocephalus, and the great and little Cynoce- 

 phalus of Prosper Alpin are nothing else. nlQwog is the generic 

 name in Greek for monkeys, and the one of which Galen gives us 

 the anatomy is nothing but a magot, though Camper thought it 

 was an orang-outang, in consequence of not thoroughly compre- 

 hending what Galen said respecting the larynx. M. De Blainville, 

 perceived this mistake, and I have established the fact by com- 

 paring all that Galen said respecting the anatomy of the Ape with 

 these two species. 



t Macaco is the generic name for monkeys on the coast of 

 Guinea, and among the negroes transported to the Colonies. Mar- 

 grave has noticed one species of them, which he says, has nates 



