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FOUR-FINGERED MONKEY. 



Simla Paniscus. S. caudata imberbis atra, cauda prehensili, manU 

 bus tetradactylis. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 37. 



Long-tailed bearded black Monkey, with prehensile tail and four- 

 fingered feet. 



Coaita. Buff. 15./. l6.pl. I. 



Four-fingered Monkey. Pennant S>uadr. p. 2 1 6. 



This animal is distinguished by the gracility of 

 its body and limbs; its uniform black colour, ex- 

 cept on the face, which is of a dark flesh colour, 

 and by the Avant of thumbs on the fore-feet, in- 

 stead of which are very small projections or ap- 

 pendices. It is one of the most active and lively 

 of animals, and is, besides, of a gentle and tract- 

 able disposition in a state of confinement. It in- 

 habits the woods of South America; associating 

 in great multitudes; assailing such travellers as 

 pass though their haunts with an infinite number 

 of sportive and mischievous gambols; chattering 

 and throwing down dry sticks, swinging by their 

 tails from the boughs, and endeavouring to inti- 

 midate the passengers by a variety of menacing 

 gestures. In some drawings of animals in the 

 British Museum this species is represented with 

 the orbits of the eyes perfectly white, and with a 

 patch of white on each side of the tip of the nose, 

 while the nose itself and the remainder of the 

 face is of a dusky colour: in another figure of 

 the same species the orbits and whole nose are of 

 a very bright pale or whitish flesh colour. 



