THE MUSTACHE. 



Generic Characters. 

 Lower jaw furnimed with pouches for the reception of food, 

 Polleriors (generally) naked. 

 Tail ftraight, and longer than the body. 



Synonims. 



Le Moustac, de ' Buffon, xiv. 283. tab. xxxix. 

 Simia cephus, Linn. Syjl. 3g. 



Cercopithecus alius Guineensis, Raii Syn. Quad. 156. 

 Mustache, Pennant Hifl. Quad. vol. i. p. 205. 



SEVERAL travellers have confounded this animal with another ipecies, 

 called the White-nofed Monkey, and this miftake has probably arifen from 

 a white tranfverfe line which appears beneath the nofe of the Muftache. 

 The difference, however, is very obvious, as the other ipecies have a white 

 nofe, continent with their name ; but the nofe of the Muftache, exclufive of 

 the above mentioned mark, is of the fame colour with the reft of his face. 



The face and ears of the Muftache are of a dirty blue colour; the 

 eyelids are of a flelh colour ; the edge of the lips, and the fpace round the 

 eyes, are black; and the cheeks are adorned with two tufts of yellow hair, 

 refembling muftaches. The hair on the body is brown ; the throat, breaft, 

 and belly are of a greyifli blue; the tail is brown at the infertion, and 

 orange coloured towards the extremity. The length of the body is about 

 one foot, and that of the tail eighteen inches. 



We know nothing particularly refpecling the habits of thefe beafts; 

 they are, however, very gentle whilft in a Hate of bondage. 



This fpecies is found in Africa. 



