63 MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Monkeys. 



Inhabits Madagascar. — Thefe two animals arc varieties of the fame fpecies, and were both fent to 

 the Count de BufFon, as apes or monkeys, from Madagafcar : They both have cheek-pouches, and 

 callofities on the. buttocks ; they have a thick, broad, long muzzle, and a prominent "ring round the 

 eyes; but their chara&eriftic mark of difference from other monkeys is, that the eye-lids are naked, 

 and of a very fplendid white colour; the eye-brows confift of ffiflf, crifped hair; and the ears are 

 black, and almoft naked: They walk on all fours ; are nearly a foot and a half long from the muz- 

 zle to the rump, and the tail is about the fame length, is carried arched over the body, and is co- 

 vered with long bufliy hair : The females menftruate. In the firft variety, the hair on the head, 

 neck, and upper parts of the body, is of a yellow brown colour, and that on the belly is white or 

 grey : In the collared Mangabey, the hair on the head and body is lighter coloured ; and this va- 

 riety is diftinguifhed by a broad collar of white hair which furrounds the neck and cheeks, in the 

 form of a beard, 



4° 12. Egret. — 23. S. Cercopithecus aygnla. 21. 



Of a grey colour, and almoft beardlefs ; having an erecT: tuft of hair on the top of the 

 head, {landing longitudinally backwards. Ofbeck. iter. 99. 



Black ape, Simia, of a middle fize. Edw. av. 22 1 . t. 3 1 1 . — Egret. Sm. Buff. viii. 140. pi. eclxv. 

 Penn. H. of Ch_n. 101. — Simia aygula. Schreber, i. 106. tab. xxii. 



Inhabits India, and chiefly the ifland of Java — The upper part of the body is of a grey colour, 

 much like that of a wolf ; the throat, breaft, and belly, are whitifh ; the tail is longer than the bo- 

 dy, and is of a pale aih colour ; the face is of a dirty white, naked, and flattifh ; the nofe is flat, 

 very fliort, at a diftance from the mouth, and has two furrows on the upper lip ; the cheeks have a 

 thin beard, which is fhed backwards ; the fore-head, above the eyes, is protuberant, and has hairy 

 eye-brows ; the feet are black, and have fliort membranes which connect the under parts of the toes 

 with each other ; the nails on the thumbs and great toes are rounded; thofe on the toes and fingers 

 are oblong ; the ears are pointed ; a curved ridge of hair runs from the ear, on each fide, behind 

 the eyes to the bafe of the lower jaw ; there is like wife a longitudinal feam or ridge of hair on each 

 fore-arm. The Count de BufFon confiders this animal as a variety of the Macaque, or Simia Cyno- 

 mologus, No.. 22.; from which, according to him, it only differs in being about one third lefs in all 

 its dimenfions ; in the pe'culiar form of the creft, or egret, from which the trivial name is derived ; 

 in the fore-head hair being black inftead of grecnifh, which it is in the Macaque ; and in the tail of 

 the Egret being proportionally longer.. 



41 (2. Monea. — S. Cercopithecus aygula Monea. 



Dr Gmelin, the learned editor of the Syftem of Nature, adds, that he has feen a monkey of this 

 fpecies, which he confiders as a variety i The head was more rounded, the face lefs black, and the 

 colour of the body lefs on the rufty brown : This animal, while chained, was continually jumping 

 c-bout. — Mr Pennant, in his Hiftory of Quadrupeds, No. 102. defcribes a monkey from Java under 

 the name of Monea, as being tufted like the Egret, having the upper parts of the body of a nifty 

 brown colour, and the under parts whitifh. Both of thefe are probably either the fame, or flightly 

 differing varieties of the Egret.: — T.. 



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