THE COCHIN-CHINA MONKEY. 



Generic Characters. 

 Each lower jaw furnifhed with a pouch for the reception of food. 

 Buttocks (generally) naked. 

 Tail Uraight, and longer than the body. 



Synonims. 



Le Douc, de Buff on, xiv. 298. tab. xli. 



Le Grand Singe de la Cochin-Chine, Schreber, 137, tab. xxiv. 



AMONG the various and numerous clalfes of quadrupeds that excite our 

 curiolity, or claim our admiration, the Cochin-China Monkey is indifputably 

 the moll remarkable, as preferving the greatell purity and harmony of 

 colour, in that robe with which he is adorned by nature. His mort, flat 

 face, is of a reddhli brown, fhaded on each fide by a long yellow beard : his 

 forehead is black, and the reft of his head grey : a firong tinge of purplim 

 brown furrounds his neck, in manner of a collar : his arms, on the upper 

 part, are grey ; but, from the elbows to the hands, they are perfectly white; 

 his fingers are black ; his back, belly, and fides grey, tinged with yellow ; 

 his loins and tail are white ; his thighs fable ; his knees and legs of a chefnut 

 colour, and his feet black. 



Thefe colours are all pure, never mingling with each other ; and as their 

 ihades are not very lively, the aflemblage is perfectly harmonious and 

 inexprefiibly pleafing. 



The generality of digitated quadrupeds, found in Alia and Africa, have 

 their pofteriors naked, but thofe of this animal are covered with hair. An 



