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distinguished when seen in a healthy state : the 

 hair on the top of the head resembling that of a 

 boy; as if parted in the middle,, and lying smooth 

 over the head. They are said to inhabit the woods 

 in great troops, and to be very destructive to such 

 gardens and plantations as lie within reach of their 

 settlements. The tail in this species is very long : 

 the nails of the thumbs are round ; the rest long. 



VAULTING MONKEY. 



S. Petaurista. S. caudata harhaia, dor so, Cauda superior e et pedum 

 anteriore latere ex olvuaceo nigris, facie nigra, nasi macula triquetra 

 ni<vea. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 35. 



Olive-black Monkey, white beneath, with a triangular snow- 

 white spot on the nose. 



Blanc- nez. Allam. Buff. 14./. 141.//. 39. 



Guenon a nez blanc preeminent. Buff, suppl. 7. p. 72. //. 18. 



This is described by Mr. Allamand in his edi- 

 tion of Buffon's Natural History of Quadrupeds. 

 It is said to be somewhat more than a foot high, 

 and the tail about twenty inches long. The upper 

 parts of the animal are of a dark olivaceous colour, 

 owing to a mixture of olive-green and black hair : 

 the face black, with a snow-white triangular spot 

 on the nose: the chin, throat, breast, and belly, 

 white : the under part of the tail and insides of the 

 limbs of a blackish grey. It is a most extremely 

 nimble and active animal, according to M. Alla- 

 mand. The individual in his possession came 

 from Guinea. It was perfectly familiar, playful, 



