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EGRET MONKEY. 



S. Aygula. S. caudata subimberhis grisea, eminent ia pilosa verticil 



reversa longitudinali. Lin. Sysf. Nat. p. 39. 

 Long-tailed beardless grey Monkey, with a rising longitudinal 



tuft on the crown. 

 Aigrette. Buff. 14.. p. \go.pl. 21. 

 Egret Monkey. Pennant Quadr. p. 207. 



The description given by Linnaeus of this species 

 is nearly as follows : 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 lowxr 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 : eyebroAVS 

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

 is said to inhabit India, and particularly the island 



