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PHILIPPINE MONKEY. 



Simia Syrichta. S. caudata imberbis, ore ciliisque vibrissatis. Lin. 



Syst. Nat. p. 42. 

 Long-tailed beardless Monkey, with long hairs round the mouth 



and eyes. * 



Cercopithecus luzonicus minimus. Petiv. ga%. zl. t. l^-f- %!• 

 Philippine Monkey. Pennant Quadr. p. 213. 



This small species (if such exists) depends 

 merely on the authority of a drawing, with its de- 

 scription, communicated to Petiver, and by him 

 represented in his work entitled Gcmphylatium, 

 fyc. The same figure is also engraved by Mr. 

 Schreber, in his plates of Quadrupeds. It is said 

 to be a native of the Philippine islands, and is 

 represented by Petiver with a young one under its 

 body, which is supposed to have been tied there 

 by means of a slender twig of some plant coiled 

 round its own back. 



The original from which the above hp-iire in 

 Petiver was copied is among the drawings of Camel 

 (Kamel), or Camelli, as he is sometimes called, 

 and which are now preserved in the British Mu- 

 seum. As a further illustration of so curious a 

 subject cannot but be acceptable to every natural- 

 ist, I shall here give Camelli's own description, 

 together with faithful copies of all the figures, 

 four in number, with which his account is accom- 

 panied. These figures are reduced from the ori- 

 ginals, in order to bring them within the com- 

 pass of the annexed plate. It is impossible to de- 

 termine from the figures and description whether 

 this species should or should not be placed in the 

 prehensile-tailed division of the genus. 



