MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Monkeys. Cy 



Inhabits the Cape de Verd iilands, the Cape of Good Hope, and the neighbouring countries in 

 the fouth of Africa; likewife in Senegal, Mauritania, and India. — This animal is much of the fame 

 fize with the Simia diana and Aygula, being as large as a middle fized cat ; the upper part of the 

 body is of a mixed a(h, green, and yellowifh colour ; the throat, bread, belly, and thighs, are whitej 

 the face is naked and black ; the temples are covered with long, reverted, yellowiih-white hairs ; the 

 eye-brows are black and hairy ; the tail is white, ftraight, and much longer than the head and bo- 

 dy; the feet are afh-coloured; the nails, on the toes, are rounded, and thole on the lingers are oval; 

 it has cheek-pouches, and callofities on the buttocks; the head is fmall, with a long muzzle; inftead 

 of eye-brows, a band of black hairs runs along the bottom of the front; the body is of a vivid 

 green colour, mixed with a little yellow : It walks on four feet, and is about fifteen inches from the 

 nofe to the origin of the tail: The females menftruate. 



37 10. Mouftache. — 21. S. Cercopithecus ccphus. 19. 



Has a beard on the cheeks ; the crown of the head is yellowifh ; the feet are black ; 

 and the tip of the tail is of an afli colour. 



Blackifh cercopithecus, having long yellowilh-white hair on the cheeks and ears, and a bluilli 

 mouth. Brill", quad. 206. — Other bearded cercopithecus from Guinea. Raj. quad. 156. — Mouf- 

 tache. Sm. Buff. viii. 163. pi. eclxxiv. Penn. H. of Q^n. 97. Simia cephus. Schreber, i. ic2. 

 tab. xix. 



Inhabits Guinea. — This is about the fame fize with the Simia diana : The upper parts of the bo 

 dy are of a -brown colour, and the under parts of a bluiih white; the hair on the head is whitilli 

 and erect, having a white femilunar tranfverfe line on the eye-brows ; the upper eye-lids are white ; 

 the hair on the cheeks fheds outwards ; the mouth is bluifh ; the body is fhort and fquat ;. the lips 

 below the nofe are of a bright white, and the reft of the face is of a blackifh or dirty blue colour, 

 and naked, except a border of black hairs which furrounds the margin of both lips ; there are two 

 large tufts of yellow hairs under the ears, one on each fide, in form of large whifkers or muftachios, 

 which give the animal a lingular appearance, and from which the trivial or fpecific name is derived; 

 there is likewife a tuft of curled hair on the top of the head ; it has cheek-pouches, and callofities 

 on the buttocks ; walks only on all fours, and is about eighteen inches in length from the muzzle to 

 the origin of the tail, which is an inch or two longer. The body is of a greenifh afh colour, and 

 the belly and breaft of a whitifh afh: The female menftruates. 



38 11. Mangabey. — 22. S. Cercopithecus aethiops. 38. 



Has a white erect fore-top, and a white femilunar arch on the fore-head ; is beardlefs. 

 Lin. Syft. nat. ed. x. p. 28. n. 14. 



Mangabey. Sm. Buff. viii. 154. pi. eclxx. — White eye-lid monkey. Penn. H. of Q^n. 95.— •- 

 Simia aethiops. Schreber, i. 105. tab. xx. xxi. 



39 /3. Collared Mangabey. — S. Cercopithecus aethiops torquatus. 



Has a broad collar of white hair which furrounds the neck and cheeks. Sm. Buff. viii. 

 154. pi. eclxxi. 



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