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EGRET MONKEY. 



S. Aygula. S. caudata subimherbis grisea, eminentia pilosa <verficis 



re<versa longitudinali. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 39. 

 Long-tailed beardless grey Monkey, with a rising longitudinal 



tuft on the crown. 

 Aigrette. Buff. 14. p. igo.pl. 21. 

 Egret Monkey. Pennant Quadr. p. 207. 



The description given by Linnaeus of this species 

 is nearly as folio ws : Body grey, or of the colour of 

 a wolf, throat, breast, and under part whitish : tail 

 longer than the body, cinereous and tapering: 

 face flattish, whitish, and naked. Nose depress- 

 ed, very short, remote from the mouth, with a 

 double fissure of the upper lip : cheeks somewhat 

 bearded; the hairs turning upwards. The eye- 

 brows prominent and bristly: feet black, semipal- 

 mated : nails of the thumbs rounded ; the others 

 oblong. Ears rather sharp : a bowed suture tend- 

 ing downwards from each ear towards the eyes to 

 the base of the lower jaw: longitudinal suture of 

 the cubit. Linnaeus also adds, that he had what he 

 supposes a variety, in which the head was rounder : 

 the face less black, and the colour of the body less 

 ferruginous. He adds, that it was an active ani- 

 mal. Mr. Pennant describes the Egret as having 

 a long face, and an upright pointed tuft of hair 

 on the top of the head: hair on the forehead 

 black: colour of the upper part of the body 

 olivaceous, of the lower cinereous : eyebrows 

 large : beard very small : size of a small cat. It 

 is said to inhabit India, and particularly the island 



