THE FOUR- FINGERED MONKEY. 



Generic Characters. 

 Pofteriors covered with hair. 

 No pouches in the jaws. 

 Tail prehenfile. 



Synonims. 



Le Coaita, Be Buffbn, xv. 10. Sclireber, 140. tab, xxvi. 



Simia Paniscus, Linn. Syjl, 37. 



Quato, Bancroft Guiana, 13 1. 



Spider Monkey, Edw. Gleanings, hi. 222. 



CeRCOPITHECUS MAJOR NIGER, FACIEM HUMANAM REFERENS. 



Quouata. Barrere France JEquin. 150. 



THE limbs of this animal are fo extremely long and flender, that fome 

 authors have given it the appellation of the Spider Monkey. Its face is of a 

 livid flelh colour. The hair that covers its body is long, black, and rough. 

 Its tail is rather bare of hair at the extremity, and very long. Its hands, or 

 fore feet, are diliinguimed from thofe of every other variety by wanting a 

 thumb ; but, on a minute examination, we perceive a fort of tufted fubftance 

 that indicates the place where the thumb mould have been. The length of 

 the body is about eighteen inches, and that of the tail near two feet. 



M. Audebert informs us, in his Natural Hiftory of Monkeys, that he has 

 feen an individual of this fpecies take up Itraw with its tail, in the fame 

 manner as an Elephant would have done with his trunk. He alfo ailerts, 

 that he has feen the fame animal climb up the trees at Paris, hang by its 



