MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Sagoins. 81 



Inhabits Brafil. — An active, refflefs animal, which climbs trees like the fquirrel, having a curved, 

 but not prehenfile, tail ; it gnaws wood like the moufe., and lives on infects, fruits, milk, bread, tea, 

 and fmall birds ; is not tameahle, and is fond of biting ; a great enemy to cats, on whom it fixes it- 

 felf under their bellies ; emits a hilling kind of cry, and fmells ftrongly of mufk ; ,is fmaller than a 

 fquirrel, fcarcely meafuring eight inches from the muzzle to the rump, and the tail is confiderably 

 longer than the body; the head is very fmall, and of a black colour; with a white fore-head and 

 white lips, the fpace between the eyes being of a yellowifh colour ; the fore part of the ears are co- 

 vered with a long white fur, which excludes the wind ; the tail is furrounded with white circular 

 bands ; it has four fore-teeth, the two outer ones being broad and parallel, and thofe on each lido 

 fliarp pointed, and approaching each other ; the tail is flaccid, very bufhy, annulated with alternate 

 bands of black and white, or rather brown and grey, and is twice as long as the body and head, 

 which laft do not exceed fix inches ; the face is naked, and of a tawny flcfli colour, having two tufts 

 of long white hair before the ears, which conceal them when the animal is viewed in the face ; the 

 ears are roundifh, flat, thin, and naked ; the eyes are of a reddifh chefnut colour ; the top of the 

 front is covered with black hair; and above the nofe there is a white naked fpot ; the body is covered 

 with grey afli coloured hair, interfperfed with a little yellow on the throat, breaft, and belly: The 

 found emitted by this animal is articulate, and refembles the word ouiJHti, which is adopted as its 

 name. 



3. Pinche. — 45. S. Sagoinus Oedipus. 25. 



Is beardlefs : Has a flowing head of hair, which hangs down on each fide ; a red tail, 

 and fnarp claws. 



Cercopithecus, covered with mixed red and brown hair ; the face, as far as beyond the ears, is 

 black and naked, and the top of the head is covered with long white hair. Briff. quad. 150. t. 28. 

 — Little lion-monkey. Edw. av. 3. p. 195. t. 195. — Larger cagui, from Brafil. Marcgr. Braf. 227. 

 — Pinche. Sm. Buff. viii. 211. pi. cclxxxvii. — Red-tailed monkey. Penn. bift. of quad. n. 126. 

 pi. XXV. 



Inhabits South America. — -A brifk active animal, which imitates the motions of the lion : Refem- 

 bles the former fpecies a good deal in fize, but is rather larger, and, like it, fmells of mulk : Its voice 

 refembles that of a moufe: The body is fmall, about fix inches long, of a grey colour on the upper 

 parts, and white below; the face, as far as beyond the ears, is black and naked, with a few fcaltered 

 white hairs, and having a wart on each cheek ; the eyes are of a rufty brown colour i the ears are 

 roundifh, black, and naked ; the claws are all narrow and fliarp, except thofe on the fliort thumbs of 

 the fore paws, which are rounded ; the tail is twice the length of the body, is red at the bafe, and 

 the reft of it black ; the region of the anus is red. The figure of this animal is lingular, though 

 beautiful; it is rendered remarkable by a kind of fmooth white hair dependent from the top and fides 

 of the head, efpecLdly as the colour is wonderfully contrafted by that of the face, which is black, 

 and interfperfed with a grey down ; the tail, from its origin to near the middle, is of a lively red, the 

 reft of a brownifh black ; the hair, on the fuperior parts of the body, is of a yellowifh brown colour, 

 that on the breaft, belly, hands, and feet, is white ; the whole fkin is black ; the throat is naked and 

 black, like the face ; the muzzle is broad, and the face round ; the voice is foft, and refembles the 

 chirping of a fmall bird : It is about nine inches long from the muzzle to the rump, and walks on 

 four feet ; is extremely delicate, and difficult to tranfport from America. 

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