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THE HORNED MONKEY. 



Generic Characters. 

 Pofteriors covered with hair. 

 No pouches in the jaws. 

 Tail prehenfile. 



Synonims. 

 Simia Fatuellus, Linn, Syjl. 42. 

 Horned Monkey, Pennant Hift. Quad. vol. i. p. 221. 

 Cercopithecus ex nigro et fusco variegatus, fasciculis 



DUOBUS PILORUM CAPITIS CORNICULORUM ^SMULIS. Le 



Sapajou cornu, Briffbn Quad. 138. 



THE Horned Monkey is not above eleven inches long, from the tip of 

 the nofe to the infertion of the tail. Its face is of a flefli colour, but the 

 hair on the cheeks is blackifh ; the lips are of a greyifh white. The hair on 

 the forehead is Ihort and white, and terminates on each fide in two long 

 black tufts, in the form of horns, and of a woolly fubftance like that which 

 covers the head of an owl. The hair that covers the top of the head is quite 

 black; and that which furrounds the face is black mingled with red. The 

 whole of the back and thighs are of a yellow brown; but the upper part of 

 the arms, with the cheft and belly, are of a very light yellow. The arms, 

 from the elbow to the wrift, with the hands, legs, feet, and tail, are black. 

 The tail is long and curly, and is entirely covered with hair; that is to fay, 

 it is not naked at the extremity. 



Thefe animals are extremely familiar, yet, when under confinement, they 

 frequently utter a melancholy cry, expreflive of their difcontent. Few of 

 them will live in Europe; and they mull be kept in very hot places to 

 preferve them at all. They are inhabitants of America. 



