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Guinea and the interior of Africa, whence it is 

 sometimes brought into Egypt. 



Two species of Macaques are distinguished 

 by a tail rather short and thin. 



The Maimon. {Simia Nemestrina, L. et Simia Platypigos, 

 Schr.) Audeb. II. 'Earn. sect. I. pi. n. * 



Deep brown above, a black band commencing 

 on the head and growing slighter along the 

 back, yellowish round the head and limbs, thin 

 tail, pendant only as far as half the thighs. 



The Rhesus. Aud. Patas a queue courte ib pi. IV. and 

 Buffon Suppl. XIV. pi. xiv. The first Maimon repre- 

 sented by Buffon f. 



Grayish, tint of fawn-colour on the head and 

 croupe. Sometimes on the whole back. 



The Cynocephala. (Cynorcephalus, C.) 



Have a muzzle elongated, and as it were, truncated 

 or lopped at the end where is the boring of the nos- 

 trils, which gives it the appearance of that of a dog 

 more than in the other quadrumana. Their tail 

 varies in length. 



* The only good figure of this animal, is that of Audebert. 

 Buffon's belongs rather to the Rhesus. 



t The Macaque a queue courte of Buffon (Simia erythrea, Schr.) 

 seems to me a true macaque (cynomolgos) whose tail was cut. 

 Audebert is wrong in confounding it with his Rhesus, which is the 

 Patas a queue courte of Buffon. 



