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the same animal in its climbing attitude, and was 

 drawn from a living specimen in a perfectly 

 healthy state. If there be any thing faulty in 

 either of the above representations, it is that the 

 eyes are scarce expressed with sufficient fulness and 

 protuberancy, a defect which is remedied in the 

 annexed plate of the present work, in which both 

 these figures are shewn. In this, as in some 

 others, the fingers and toes have rounded nails, 

 as in most of the monkies ; but the inner toe on 

 each hind foot, next the thumb, has a sharp claw. 

 Mr. Vosmaer's description of this animal's man- 

 ners is extremely accurate, and is confirmed by 

 the observation of several specimens, which have 

 since been brought into Europe, two of which I 

 have myself examined. " I received (says he) this 

 singular animal in June 1/68, and, notwithstand- 

 ing its disagreeable odour, my curiosity induced 

 me to take it into my chamber. It slept all the 

 day to the very evening, and it being then the 

 height of summer, it did not awake till half past 

 eight in the evening. It was kept in a cage of 

 an oblong square shape, with iron wires ; and it 

 constantly slept seated on its hind part, close to 

 the wires, with its head bent forwards between the 

 two fore feet, which were placed over its belly. 

 In this attitude it always held itself strongly at- 

 tached by the two hind feet to the iron wires of 

 the cage ; and often by one of the fore feet also ; 

 which makes me imagine that it generally sleeps 

 on trees, holding by the branches. Its motion, 

 when awakened, was extremely slow, and always 



