MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Monkeys. 69 



42 13. Nodding Monkey. — 24. S. Cercop'ithecus nitlilans. 23. 



Is of a black colour, mottled with paler fpots, and having a white nofe : The thumbs 

 are very fhort ; the buttocks, are covered with hair ; and the chin is beardlefs. 



Another cercopithecus from Angola, of a black colour, mottled with blackifh grey fpots all 

 over the body, and having a white nofe. Marcgr, Braf. 227. — White-nofed monkey. Penn. H. 

 of Q. n. 98. 



a% Q>. Bearded Nodding Monkey. — S. Cercop'ithecus niclitans barbatus. 



Exactly like the former, except that it has a long white beard on the chin. Penn. H. 

 of. Q^n. 1 9. 1. 



Inhabits Guinea. —This is a playful animal, which continually nodded with its head : It was feen by 

 Dr Alftraemer, who has given a defcription, in the poffeffion of Profeffor Burman of Amfterdam : 

 It is nearly of the fame fize with the Pigmy, or Simia fylvanus ; has a fmall mouth, hairy face, yel- 

 low irides, and is naked round the eyes ; the lips and chin are whitilh ; the tail is black, ftraight, 

 cylindrical, and longer than the body ; the feet are black, and the thumbs are not longer than to- 

 the firft joint of the fore-fingers. 



44 14. Rillow. — 25. S. Cercopithecns finicus. 39. 



The hair on the top of the head is parted circularly, and lies flat, fhading the whole 

 head : Has no beard. Mantiff. pi. ii. p. 521. 



Chinefe bonnet. Sm. Buff. viii. 148. pl.cclxix. — Rillow. Knox's Ceylon. 26. — Chinefe monkey. 

 Penn. H. of Q\_n. 104. 



45 /3. Bonneted Rillow. — S. Cercopithecns finicus pileatus. 



The hair on the top of the head ftands eredT:, and forms the appearance of a round 

 black bonnet : The body is of a brown colour ; the legs and arms are black : Is 

 about the fize of a fmall cat. Penn. H. of Q^n. 105. 



Inhabits India. — The tail is much longer than the body ; the nails of the thumbs and great toes 

 are rounded, thofe on the fingers and toes are oblong ; the muzzle is long, fmooth, and of a dufky 

 colour ; the upper parts of the body are of a pale brown colour mixed with yellow, and the under 

 parts are whitifh. — This animal is probably a variety of the Malbrouck, or Simia faunus, from which 

 it differs by having rather a longer tail, and by the particular difpofition of the hair on the top of 

 the head, which lies flat, and is parted circularly like a Chinefe bonnet, from which circumftance- 

 its vulgar name is derived. 



46 15. Douc. — 26. S. Cercopithecns nemaeus. 40. 

 Has a beard on the cheeks, and a white tail. Mantiff. plant, ii. p. 251. 



Afh-coloured cercopithecns, having the* cheeks furrounded with long, yellowifli-white hairs, 

 and a purplifh-brown collar round the neck. Briff. quad.. 146. — Douc, or Sifac. Sm. Buff. viii. 168. 

 pi. cclxxvi. — Cochin-China monkey, or Sifac. Penn. H. of Q^n. 107 — Simia nemaeus. Schreber, i. 

 1 lo. tab. xxiv. 



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