78 MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Sapajcus. 



72 8. Sai. — 39. S. Stipqjus capucmus. 30. 



Is of a brown colour, with erect black hair on the top of the head, and black limbs : 

 Has a fliaggy prehenfde tail ; and is beardlefs. 



• Beardlefs black ape, Simia, with a long lhaggy tail and yellowifh face. Muf. Ad. Fr. 2. t. 2. — 

 Cercopitliecus entirely black. BrLT. quad. 139. n. 5. — Sai, or Weeper. Sm. Buff. viii. 196. 

 pi. cclxxx. — Capucin. Pcnn. hift. of quad. n. 117. — Simla capucina. Schreber, i. 120. t. xxix. 



73 (I. White throated Sai. — S. Sapnjus cnpucinus albulus. 



Has white hair on the bread, throat, and round the ears and cheeks. Sm. Buff. viii. 196. 

 pi. cclxxxvi. 



This animal differs from the other variety, befides the circumftances mentioned in the character, 

 by having lefs hair round the face ; but, in every other article, and in difpofitions, fize, and figure, 

 they perfectly referable each other. 



Eoth inhabit South America.— This animal walks gravely, and does hot fkip about; it is continually 

 crying in a wailing ?nd lamentable voice, and repels its enemies by horrible clamours; often fhriek- 

 ing like the cricket; and, when teazed, yelps like a whelp; carries the tail rolled up fpirally, and 

 very often wrapped round the neck : It fmells rank of mufk ; is about the fize of a cat ; the body 

 being of a dark brown colour, with the head, limbs, and tail, black; the fore-head is fometimes 

 black, and fometimes red,- having a black, wrinkled, and moveable fold of the fkin, juft before 

 the hair,; the nofe, near the eyes, is furrowed; and the tufks are placed near the other teeth; the 

 tail is long, prehenfile, and always rolled up, and is covered with very long hair ; when fitting, the 

 . feet are placed in fuch a manner that the hind are always more advanced than the fere paws ; the 

 face is round and flat, and the ears are almoft naked; on the upper parts of the body, the hair is 

 of a blackifh brown colour, and, on the inferior parts, of a pale yellow, or dirty white ; it does 

 not exceed fourteen inches in length, from the muzzle to the rump, and the tail is longer than the 

 body and head ; it walks en all fours ; is a mild, docile, and timid animal, whofe common cry re- 

 fembles that of a rat, and becomes a kind of groaning when threatened with danger. In Europe 

 it eats May-bugs and fnails, but in Brafil lives chiefly on grains and wild fruits. 



74. 9. Saiiniri.— 40. S. Sapajvs fciurcus. 31. 



Has no beard ; the hinder part of the head is prominent ; and the nails, on the four 

 toes of the hind paws, are narrow and pointed. 



Beardlefs ape, Simia, having a long tail, a gibbofity on the back of the head, aild the toe 

 n; Is" oblong. Muf. Ad. Fr. 3. — Cercopitliecus, having its hair variegated with yellowifh 2nd 

 whitifh brown, and the legs of a reddifh yellow or orange colour. Briff. quad. 197. — Small half- 

 bearded American ape, with a long tail, having a bhiifh black muzzle, and oblong nails. Wagner 

 Muf. Bareuth. p. 1. t. 1. — Leffer yellow cercopitliecus. Barrere fr. equin. 151. — Caitaia. Marcgr. 

 Braf. 227.— Saimiri. Sm. Buff. viii. 199. pi. ccUxii. — Orange monkey. Penn. hift. of quad. 

 n. 1 10.- Simia fciurea. Schreber, i. 121. tab. xxx. 



I; habits South America. — A pleafant animal, which ufually refts by lying en its belly; ftares in 

 the face of fuch as fpeak to it; and is very delicate in the climate of Europe : Its body is about the 



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