So MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. • Sagoins. 



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Have long tails, which are •proportionally longer than thofe of the Sapajous, flraighr, 

 flaccid, entirely covered with hair, and not prehenfile ; that is, incapable of laying 

 hold or any object : The cheeks have no pouches ; and the buttocks, which are co- 

 vered with hair, have no callofities : The partition between the noftrils is very thick, 

 and the apertures are placed on the fides of the nofe. The females do not menftru- 

 ate. This race of animals is only found in America. 



78 1. Saki. — 43. S Sagoinus pithecia. 22. 



Is beardlefs, and the body is thickly covered with long hairs, which are black at the 

 points.; the tail is covered with very long hair. 



Very fmall whitifh ape, of a deep brown, almoft reddifh, colour on the back, having the tail 

 very hairy. Brown. Jam. 489. — Cercopithecus, covered with black hairs, black at the points, and 

 having the tail clothed with very long black hair. BrifT. quad. 195. — Saki. Sm. Buff. viii. 201. 



pi. cclxxxiii. — Sakkawinkee. Bancroft. Guiana. 80 — Simia pithecia. Schreber, i._ 125. tab. xxxii 



Fox-tailed monkey. Penn. tuft, of quad, n. 122. 



Inhabits South America. — An exceedingly amufing animal, and eafily tamed : The body is black, 

 all the hairs having white points, and is fometimes a foot and a half in height ; the face has fome 

 very fhort white hairs ; the throat and belly are covered with dirty whitifh hairs; the nails are long 

 and blunt ; the face is tawny, and covered with a fine, fhort, whitifh down ; the hair on the upper 

 parts of the body -is blackifh brown, and that on the belly and other inferior parts is reddifh white; 

 the hair on the tail is fo long as to hang near two inches beyond the point. There are varieties of 

 this fpecies, at leaft in colour; fome haying the hair on the body and tail of a reddifh yellow, colour. 

 The fore-head, and fides of the face., are furrounded with whitifh and pretty long hair ; the hands 

 and feet are black, with claws inftead of nails. 



79 2. Sanglin, — 44. S. Sagoinus jacchus. 24. 



The ears are large, open, and very hairy ; the tail is crooked, and very thickly covered 

 with hair; the nails on the thumbs and great toes are rounded, while thofe of the 

 fingers and toes are Iharp and narrow. 



Cercopithecus, variegated with alternate tranfVerfe bands of brown and whitifh grey, having 

 the ears furrrounded with white hairs. Brill", quad. 202. — Sagouin, or third cercopithecus from 

 Brafil. Cluf. exot. 372. t. 372. — Galleopithecus, called Sagoin by the Brafilians. Cefn. quad. 369. 

 — Lefier cagui. Marcgr. Braf. 227. — Sanglin, or leffer cagui. Edw. av. v. 15. I 218. — Oiltiti, or 

 ftriated monkey. Sm. Buff. via. 205. pi. cclxxxv. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 124. 



00 /2. Ycllowiih Sanglin. — S. Sagoinus jacchus mofchatus. 



Of a whitifh yellow colour, and fmelling ftrongly of mufk. BrifT. quad. 197. 

 "Firfi cix cop .. ;cus from Br2fil. C;uf. exot. 371 



Inhabits 



