76 MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Sapajous. 



66 3. Quato. — 35. S. Sapajus panifcus. 14. 



Has no thumb on the hands ; is of a black colour 5 and has no beard. 



Larger dark brown ape, having only four fingers on the hands; and the tail naked on the un- 

 der fide at the extremity, and prehenfile. Brown Jamaica, 489. — Cercopithecus, wanting the 

 thumb on the hands, and having the under fide of the tail naked at the extremity. BriiT. quad. 211. 

 Coaita. Sm. Buff", viii. 1 84. pi. cclxxvii. — Quato. Bancroft's Guiana, 131. — Simia panifcus. Schre- 

 ber, i. 115. t. xxvi. — Four-fingered monkey. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 115. 



Inhabits South America. — An active, bold animal, fond of freedom, full of gambols, and impa- 

 tient of cold : It is about the fize of a maftiff, and of a black colour, fometimes dark brown ; the 

 limbs and waift are long and {lender ; thefe, and the farther half of the tail, are fometimes brown 

 coloured, and fometimes black, like the reft of the body ; it has four fingers only *, without any 

 evident thumb on the hands, and five toes on the feet ; there is, however, a very fmall thumb on 

 the hands, at fome diftance from the reft of the fingers, which is concealed by being placed much 

 inwards ; the nails on the fingers are rounded ; thofe on the toes are fomewhat oblong and fharp- 

 ifh ; the face is red, and naked, with bare ears ; it has a very long prehenfile tail, and wants the 

 offeous pouch in the throat by which the two former fpecies of Sapajous make their harfh noife ; 

 the ikin is black, and covered with rough black hair, very thin on the under parts of the body ; 

 the face is naked and tawny, with naked ears refembling thofe of man; it is about a foot and a 

 half long from the muzzle to the rump, and walks on four feet : This is a familiar and traftable 

 animal. — There feem to be fome varieties of this fpecies, as Briflbn defcribes one which had whitifh 

 hairs on all the under parts of the body; and Edwards Gleanings, 222. mentions two varieties, one- 

 black and the other brown. 



67 4. Exquima. — S. Sapajus Exquima. 



Is of a variegated black and yellow colour on the back; the throat and belly are white; 

 has a beard. Sm. Buff. viii. 184. 



Bearded cercopithecus from Guinea, called Exquima in Congo. Marcgr. hift. nat. Brafil. 227* 

 fig. p. 228. 



Inhabits South America. — This animal is nearly of the fame fize with the Coaita or Quato, laft 

 defcribed, but differs in the colour, and in having a beard ; it is, however, very nearly allied to, 

 and perhaps only a variety of that fpecies, which it refembles in difpofition, fize, and prehenfile 

 tail. 



68 5. Sajou. — 36. S. Sapajus trepidus, 20. 



Has an erett tuft of hair on the fore-head, and no beard ; the hands and feet are blue ; 



the tail is long and hairy. 



Bulk- 



* It is firiffular that the accurate Count de Bnffon (hould, in his defcription of this animal, feveral 

 times infill on the want of thumbs, while the plate gi :'n in his Natural Hiftory diftinclly delineates the 

 fmall fhort thumbs mentioned in the foregoing defcription from Dr Cmelin's edition of the Syllema 

 Naturae. — T. 



