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FOX-TAILED MONKEY. 



Simla Pithecia. S. caudata imherbis, seller e nigra apice alio, Cauda 



nigra viUosissima. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 40. 

 Blackish-brown Monkey, with the tips of the hairs whitish 5 the 



tail extremely full of hair. 

 Saki. Buff. l$.p. SS.pl. 12 andsuppl. J. p. 113, 114.//. 30,31. 

 S. Pithecia. Museum Leverianum. No. 4, /. 1 69. /. 5. 

 Fox-tailed Monkey. Pennant £>uadr. p. 222. 

 Yarque. Buff. suppl.J. p. 113. pi. 30. Sings de Nuit. p. 1 14. 



pi 31. 



The Fox-tailed Monkey is about the size of 

 a large cat, and is an animal of a very remark- 

 able appearance. It is entirely of a dusky-brown 

 colour, with a slight cast of ferruginous ; except 

 on the head and face; the middle of the face or 

 nose being black, bare, and surrounded by white 

 downy hair on the cheeks and forehead, and 

 which, gradually expanding on the top and sides 

 of the head, forms a very thick and full kind of 

 beard, which divides under the chin, so as to 

 leave in that part a bare space. This gives a 

 highly singular aspect to the face. The eyes are 

 large, and the ears round and flat : the feet arid 

 hands are furnished with sharpish claws : the tail 

 is equal to the body in length, and most ex- 

 tremely villose or full of hair. A most elegant 

 and perfect specimen of this animal is in the Le- 

 verian Museum, and is very finely represented in 

 the Museum Leverianum. It is a native of 

 Guiana. The tusks in this species are remark- 

 ably large. In the 7th supplemental volume to 



