THE SPOTTED MONKEY. 



Generic Characters. 

 Lower jaw furnifhed with pouches for the reception of food. 

 Buttocks (generally) naked. 

 Tail ftraight, not prehenfile. 



Synonims. 

 Simia Diana, Linn, Syfl. 38. 

 L'Exquima, de Buffon, xv. 16. 



Spotted Monkey, Pennant Hijl t Quad, vol. i. p. 201. 

 La Diane, Schreher 115, tab. xiv. 



Cercopithecus barbatus Guineensis, Exquima, Raii Syn. 

 Quad. 156. 



THIS animal differs from all other Monkeys by its beard, which is 

 extremely long, thin, and pointed at the end : the face of the Spotted 

 Monkey is long and triangular ; its nofe prominent : the under part of its 

 head of a black ifh grey colour : its forehead is adorned with Ihort white 

 hairs, and its jaws are thickly covered with the fame : the top of its back, 

 with the fides, arms, thighs, legs, and tail, is of a dark flate colour : its breaft 

 and the infide of its arms are white: a large Itripe of reddiih brown extends 

 itfelf, in the form of a pyramid, from the tail to the moulders : the infide of 

 the thighs is orange coloured, and a white line extends from the outer part 

 of the thigh to the knee : the upper parts of the body are marked with white 

 Ipecks. 



Thefe creatures are inhabitants of Guinea ; they ufually meafure eighteen 

 inches, and the tail is of a conliderable length. 



