70 MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Monkeys. 



Inhabits Cochin-China and Madagascar. — Is about two feet high, according to Dr Gmelin, though 

 the Count de Buffon fays that this fpecies is from three and a half to four feet in height ; and Mr 

 Pennant informs us that he is as tall as a man. The fkin of the face and ears is almoft fcarlet, with a 

 band of a darker brownifh colour on the fore-head ; and thefe parts have a blackifh hair or down ; 

 the face is furrounded with hair of a whitifh colour, intermixed with yellow; the collar, on the upper 

 part of the neck, is of the fame colour with the band on the fore-head ; the fhoulders, upper parts 

 of the arms and thighs, and the toes, are black ; the hands and groins are whitifh ; and the feet 

 and legs, as far as the knees, are brown : The Bezoar of the Ape is chiefly procured from this fpe- 

 cies. This animal is allied to the monkeys by the length of the tail, to the baboons in fize, and to 

 the apes by the flatnefs of the face ; and feems to form a fhade between the monkeys and fapajous, 

 as, like the latter, the buttocks are hairy, and the muzzle fiat ; but, befides the circumftance of this 

 fpecies being an inhabitant of the old world, the tail not being prehenfile, and other effential cha- 

 racters, feparates the Douc from the fapajous, and fixes the fpecies among the monkeys. There are 

 no callofities on the buttocks •, the tail is not fo long as the head and body; the face is red, and co- 

 vered with a reddifh down ; the ears are of the lame colour, and naked ; the lips and orbits of the 

 eyes are dark brown, or black ; there is a purplifh-brown collar round the neck ; and a whitifh- 

 yeliow beard furrounds the cheeks; the top of the fore-head, and upper part of the arms, are black; 

 the fore-arms, and Under part of the fore-head, whitifh; the top of the head and the body are grey; 

 the breaft and belly yellow ; the lower parts of the legs are whitifh ; the upper part of the thighs 

 black ; and the tail, under part of the loins, and infide of the thighs at the top, are whitifh. It 

 walks as often on two feet as on all fours. It is uncertain whether the females menftruate. 



1-7 16. Monina *. — 27. S. Cercopithecus Mona. 41. 



Has a prominent, femilunar, whitifh-grey, arch over each eye ; and is bearded. 



Cercopithecus, covered with variegated black and tawny hair ; having black feet, and an afii- 

 coloured tail. Briff. quad. 141. — Mona. Sm. Buff. viii. 156. pi. cclxxii. — Varied monkey. Penn. 

 H. of Q^jn. 106. — Simia mona. Schreber, i. 97. tab. xv. 



Inhabits Morocco, and the warmer parts of Afia. — This is the moft common of the monkeys, and 

 agrees beft of any v/ith the climate of Europe : It is found in Barbary, Perfia, Arabia, and many 

 places of Alia, where it was known to the ancients under the name of Kebos, Cebus, or Coephus, 

 on account of the variety of its colours. The names Mone, Mona, Monina, and Mounina, are 

 ufed in the Morefk, Spanilh, and Provencal languages, for all long tailed monkeys; and from thefe 

 the barbarous Latin Monichi, and Englilh Monkey, feem derived. This fpecies has cheek-pouches, 

 and callofities on the buttocks ; is about a foot and a half from the muzzle to the rump, and the 

 tail is about two feet long; the head is fmall and round, the face is a bright tawny brown, the muz- 

 zle thick and fhort ; there is a kind of grey beard, formed by the hairs on the throat, and the 

 cheeks are furrounded with a beard of white, yellow, and black, hairs interfperfed ; the hair on the 

 top of the head is a mixture of yellow and black ; there is a grey band over the fore-head ; and a 



black 



* I have, in general, preferred fingle n3mes for tiie feveral fpecies, as much as poflibie ; ufing the 

 appellations given in the countries- where the animals are found, in imitation of the Count de Buffon : 

 The name he gives to this fpecies is Mona ; but, as this comes rather too near Monea, which is formerly 

 employed for .1 variety of the Egret, No. 4!. I have ufed, for this fpecies, a fynomime, given likewife by 

 Buffon.— T. 



