MAMMALOGY. 



back longest, being in some parts six inches long, and on its first 

 arrival in England it was still longer : the hair of the back is di- 

 rected downwards as it is also on the upper arm, but on the lower 

 arm it is reversed and turned upwards, and on the thighs inwards. 

 The hair upon the legs and arms is not quite so long as on the back, 

 and on the shoulders, elbows and knees is short and thinly spread : 

 on the back of the hands and feet the hair is very short. The palms 

 of the hands, and soles of the feet quite bare and of a copper colour. 



The face is prominent or salient, and of a blueish grey colour : 

 the forehead high ; the eyes approximate and of a dark hazel co- 

 lour ; and the mouth advanced considerably : the hair on the head 

 dark, disposed on each side the face, and bending forward towards 

 the face like whiskers, ^leaving bare the ear which very exactly 

 resembles that of the human ear. In the front view the nose seems 

 to be flat upon the face or with only a little elevation of the nostrils. 

 In the profile the nose is seen situated in the hollow of a deep curve, 

 formed by the depression of the face between the forehead and the 

 mouth, the nostrils just rising above the line of curvature: the 

 mouth is advanced, the margin copper colour. And beneath the 

 chin a capacious membrane that gives it the appearance of a double 

 chin when the animal inflates that part to testify his pleasure or re- 

 sentment. The body inclines to corpulency : the belly is protuberant : 

 and the belly with the breast of the animal, as before observed, were 

 at the time of its first arrival bare, but afterwards became hairy. 

 Each of the sides of the animal are marked with two stripes of cop- 

 per colour which descend from the arm pits as low as the navel. 

 The hands and feet are very long, the fingers long and slender : the 

 thumb so short as not quite to reach the first joint of the fore finger : 



