66 MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Monkeys. 



Inhabits Africa — This animal has cheek-pouches, and callofities on the buttocks ; the body and 

 head are about eighteen or twenty inches long, and the tail is of the fame length; the head is large; 

 the face is naked, livid, and wrinkled, with a very thick muzzle; the ears are covered with hair; the 

 body is fhort and fquat; and the limbs are thick and fhort; the upper parts of the body are of a 

 greenifh afh colour, the breaft and belly are yellowifh grey : It walks fometimes erect. Of this 

 fpecies there appear to be varieties much larger than the one here defcribed, and others much {mail- 

 er. Its difpofitions are mild and tra&able ; but it is dirty,, ugly, loathfome, and difgufting. 



34 7« Dog- headed Monkey. — 18. S. Cercopithecus cynocephalos. 16". 



Has no beard, and is of a yellow colour ; the muzzle is long ; the tail long and 

 ftraight ; and the buttocks naked. 



Dog-headed cercopithecus, having its hair of a mixed greenifh and yellowifh colour. BrifT. quad. 

 213. — Cercopithecus. jonft. quad. t. 59. f. ult. 



Inhabits Africa. — This animal has a ftrong refemblance to the Simia inuus, or Magot baboon, ex- 

 cept in having a long tail, while that of the formerly defcribed animal is fhort. 



35 8. Spotted Monkey. — 19. S. Cercopithecus Diana. 17. 



Has a beard, and a long tail: The hair on the fore-head and the beard are pointed. 

 Act. Stockholm. 1754, p. 210. tab. 6. 



Bearded cercopithecus, of a brown colour, fprinkled with fmall white fpots, and having a white 

 beard. BrifT. quad. 148. n. 23. — Bearded cercopithecus from Guinea. Raj. quad. 159. — Second 

 bearded cercopithecus. Cluf. exot. 371. — Spotted monkey. Penn. H. of Q^n. 92. — Simia diana. 

 Schreber, I. 94. tab. xiv. 



Inhabits Guinea and Congo. — When young, this animal is exceedingly playful ; it falutes pafTen- 

 gers by nodding with its head, and, when angry, it chatters its teeth, holding its mouth wide open ; 

 when full grown, the tufks grow long, and the animal becomes ill tempered and fond of biting ; it 

 keeps its bed or neft very clean ; when called, anfwers greek ,■ is about the iize of a middling cat ; 

 of a black or dark brown colour, fpotted with white ; the back is of a ruffy brown colour, the inner 

 parts of the thighs pale red, the throat and breaft white; the beard is black at its upper part, the 

 lower part is white, long, and pointed, and refts on a fatty protuberance ; the hair on the fore-head 

 is white, erect, and pointed, having a white tranfverfe line, or band, in form of a crefcent ; a white 

 line pafTes along the outfide of each thigh from the anus to the knee ; the tail is long, ftraight, and 

 of a black colour, as are the face, ears, belly, and feet. 



r.f } C). Green Monkey .- — 20. S. Cercopithecus /abacus . 18. 



Of a yellowifh green colour, and beardlefs: The tail is long and ahVcoloured; the face 

 black, and the buttocks naked. 



Yellowifh afh-coloured cercopithecus, having the cheeks furrounded with long white hairs. 

 Briff. quad. 145. n. 17. — Cercopithecus from St Jago. Edw. av. v. 210. t. 215. — Callitrix. Sm. 

 Buff., viii. 16c. pi. ctlxxirW — Green monkey. Penn. H. of Q\_n. c)^. 



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