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which is almost equally particularized, though differing 

 from this very materially in its extravagant nose and 

 shapeless body. 



It is a large species, said to measure, when erect, three 

 feet and a half in height ; the tail is about one fourth 

 shorter than the body. 



Equally mindful of brevity on the one hand, and of the 

 portion of information fairly to be expected from a work so 

 comprehensive as the present on the other, we shall pro- 

 ceed to notice two or three other species of Guenons, 

 described by scientific writers. The Golden Guenon (Cer- 

 copithecus auritus) described by M. Temminck, has the 

 hair of an uniform golden yellow colour, deeper on the 

 upper parts, with a black patch on the knee, the belly is 

 nearly naked, the fingers of the fore-hands are covered with 

 hair as far as the second phalanx only, but those of the 

 hinder hands are hairy to the nails, the forehead and ears 

 are enveloped in hair much longer than the rest. It is as 

 big as the Douc, but the tail of this species is longer than 

 the body. The specimen described in the possession of M. 

 Temminck came from the Moluccas. 



M. Temminck describes under the epithet latibarbatus, 

 a species of Guenon with a large beard spreading laterally ; 

 with a tuft at the end of the tail ; and the face of a purple 

 colour surrounded with long white hairs. The body is 

 thin, the head round and large, the thumbs of the anterior 

 hands are shorter than the others. The hair is silky, of a 

 uniform pale gray brown colour, both in the lower and up. 

 per parts of the animal. It is about a foot long, and the 

 tail is nearly of the same length. M. Temminck states 

 with regard to the colour, that when the animal is adult, 

 its colour is black. 



This description seems to correspond with that of the 

 purple-faced monkey of Pennant (Quad, v. i. p. 199,) taken 



