MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Sapajous. 79 



fize of a fquirrel, and, when fitting, it is about feven inches in height ; the upper parts of the boiy 

 are of a greenifh-grey colour, and the under parts whitifh; the legs and arras are rufty-brown ; the 

 tail is hairy, having a black tip, and is twice the length of the body ; the nails of the thumbs and 

 great toes are rounded ; the muzzle is of a bluifli brown colour; the eye-brows are furnifhed with 

 briftly hairs ; and the ears are covered with a thin whitiih down. This is the moft beautiful of all 

 the Sapajous ; its movements are graceful, its fize fmall, its colour a brilliant yellow, its vifage round, 

 with large vivacious eyes, furrounded by flefli-colonrcd rings; it has hardly any fore-head ; the nofe 

 is elevated at the bafe, and flattened at the point ; the mouth is fmall, the face flat and naked, and 

 the ears are garnifhed with hair, and a little pointed ; the tail is only half prehenfile : It ftands with, 

 eafe on two feet, but commonly walks on all four. 



75 |3.. Chefnut Sainuri. — 41. S.-Sapajusfciureusmortm. 32. 



Of a chefnut colour, with a brown muzzle, and no bear I, having a naked fcaly tail. 



Lcfler American cercopithccus, called Monkie. Seba Muf. i. 22. t. 3^. f. 1.— Cercopithecus* 

 with a chefnut coloured back, a fmooth belly, and having a tail like a moufe. Briff. quad. 201. 



Inhabits America. —This animal feems only to differ from the Saimiri by its leffer fize, and from 

 being younger ; for which reafon it is only ranked as a variety of the Saimiri, though, by Dr- Gme~ 

 lin, it is placed as a diftinct fpecies, in his edition of the Syilema Naturae. — T. 



76" 10. Magu. — 42. S. Sapajus fyrichtus, 33. 



Is beardlefs, and has the mouth and orbits furrounded with long hairs. 



Long tailed, beardlefs, cercopithecus, having a brown muzzle, and a naked fcaly tail. Gronow 

 Zooph. 21. — Smalieft cercopithecus, from the Philippine ifknds. Pet. gaz. 21. t. 13. f. 11. — Phi- 

 lippine monkey. Penn. Kilt, of quad. n. 113 — Simia fyrichta. Schreber, i.152. t. xxxi. 



Said to inhabit the Philippine iflands. — This is an obfeure fpecies, which is mentioned only bv. 

 Petiver, who fays that the Indians call it Root, or Magu.. 



77 I r. Variegated Sapajou. — S. Sapajus variegatus. 



The hair on the fides and back of an intimately mixed orange and black colour. 

 Antigua monkey. Penn. hift. of quad. n. io.il. 



Its place uncertain. — A lively good natured animal, full of tricks: The body is about eighteen; 

 inches long, including the head, and the tail, by which it frequently hangs, is twenty inches Jong; 

 the face is black, having a fhort- nofe, and long hair hanging down on each fide cf the cheeks; the 

 back and fides are orange and black intimately mixed; the belly white ; the outfide of the legs 

 black, and the infides aih coloured ; the tail a dufky afh. This animal was brought from Anti- 

 gua; but its native place is uncertain.. 



