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MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Monkeys. 63 



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Inhabits Africa. — Is about two feet high; and the tail, which is {lender and taper, is about feven 

 inches long ; the body and limbs are covered with long, black hair ; that on the head and cheeks is 

 long, difhevelled, and of a dufky colour; the breaft is whitifh; the face, hands, and feet, are black 

 and naked. 



*** MONKEYS.— CERCOP1 THE CI 



Have long tails, which are not prehenfile ; the under parts of their cheeks are furnifh. 

 ed with pouches, in which they can keep their victuals ; the partition between the 

 noftrils is thin, and the apertures are, like thofe of man, placed in the under part of 

 the nofe ; the buttocks are naked, and provided with callofities. Thefe animals, 

 which are never found native in America, are the Cercopitheci, and k«i0«<, of the an- 

 cients. 



1. Dog- tailed Monkey. 12. — S. Cercopithecus cyncfuros. 37. 



Has a long tail and no beard : The face is long, with a footy coloured fore-head, and a 

 whitim band over the eyes ; the male parts are highly coloured ; the nails are convex. 

 Scopoli delic. flor. et faun. Infubr. P. i. p. 44. tab. xix. 



This animal is about the fize of a middling dog, being near two feet high when erect; it is deceit- 

 ful, reftlefs, and libidinous. Its country is unknown. 



2. Tartarin.' — 13. S. Cercopithecus hamadryas. 8. 



Has a long tail, and naked blood-coloured buttocks ; the ears are hid in the hair ; the 

 nails are fomewhat pointed. 



Egyptian ape, having a long tail, and naked prominent buttocks. Hafelquift, it. 189. — Ape, 



fimia, having the upper part of the ears very hairy. Alpin. hift. nat. ^Egypt. 242. tab. 17 19. — 



Cynocephalus. Gefner, quad. 252. f. p. 253. — Dog-faced baboon. Penn. H. of Q^n. 36 Simia 



hamadryas. Schreber, i. 82. tab. x. — Le Tartarin. Belon. portrait. 102. 



Inhabits Africa, Arabia, and Afia. — The tail of this fpecies is fcarcely fo long as the body; long 

 hair hangs down on each fide, from the ears, like a flowing wig ; the buttocks are naked, and of a 

 blood-red colour : This fpecies is about five feet high when erect ; the head and face refemble a 

 dog, the muzzle being long, thick, ftrong, and prominent, with a fmooth red nofe; the face is na- 

 ked; and the ears are pointed, and hid in the hair; the hair on the fides of the head, and on the 

 body, as far as the waift, is long and fhaggy ; on the top and hind part of the head, the limbs, and 

 the body below the waift, it is Ihort; the nails of the fingers are flat, but thofe of the toes are fharp 

 and narrow. 



(I. Urfine Tartarin. — S. Cercopithecus hamadryas urfinus. 



That part of the head immediately above the fore-head is prominent, and terminates in 

 a ridge. 



Urfine dog-faced baboon. Penn. H. of Q^n. 86. /3. Kolbeh. ii. 120. La Caille, 296". 



Inhabits 



