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ANTIGUA MONKEY. 



Simia Antiguensis. S . fuho-nigricans y subtus alba, artubus nigris, 



facie nigra genis barbatij, cauda prehensile fusca. 

 Blackish-fulvous Monkey, white beneath, with black limbs, the 



face black with bearded cheeks, and brown prehensile tail. 

 Antigua Monkey. Pennant Quadr. p. 221. 



With a short nose; black face: hair on each 

 side long: back and sides orange and black, in- 

 timately mixed : belly white : outside of the legs 

 black ; inside ash-coloured : tail of a dusky ash ; 

 its length twenty inches: body eighteen. This 

 seems a large species, and is described by Mr. 

 Pennant from one which was brought from An- 

 tigua ; but its real native place was not known ; it 

 was a lively sportive animal : the tail strongly pre- 

 hensile. 



NAKED-TAILED MONKEY. 



Simia Morta. S. caudata imberbis spadicea, ore fusco, cauda nuda, 



squamosa. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 43. 

 Long-tailed beardless brown Monkey, with dusky muzzle and 



naked scaly tail. 

 Cercopithecus americanus minor Monkie dictus. Seba. p. I. 



22. /. 33./. 1. 



This species (if it really exists as such) seems 

 to have been mentioned by Linnaeus on the faith 

 of Seba, who has figured it on the thirty-third 

 plate of the first volume of his Thesaurus ; but it 



