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All the Baboons and Monkies we have yet defcribed 

 are furnifhed with cheek-pouches, capable of containing 

 food fufficient to fupply them for a day or two : They 

 alfo ferve as receptacles for whatever they obtain more 

 than fupplies their prefent wants. But we have thought 

 it unneceffary to repeat this circumftance in the account 

 of every animal of thofe kinds. 



The D O U C 



differs from other Monkies, in having no callolities on 

 its buttocks, which are entirely covered with hair 5 it is 

 alfo much larger, being nearly four feet high when erect. 

 Its face is fhort, and rather flat, furnilhed on each fide 

 with long hairs, of a pale yellow colour ; its body is 

 beautifully variegated with differently coloured hair; 

 round the neck there is a collar of a bluiih-purple co- 

 lour ; the top of the head and body is grey; bread and 

 belly yellow ; arms white below, and black above ; tail 

 white ; feet black ; face and ears red ; lips black ; and 



round each eye there is a black ring. It is found in 



Cochin-China, and in the ifland of Madagafcar, where 

 it is called the Sifac. 



M. BufFon places the Douc in the laft clafs of thofe 

 animals of the Monkey kind that belong to the old conti- 

 nent; and defcribes it as forming a fhade between them 

 and the Monkies of America, which he diftinguiihes by 

 the generic names of Sapajqus and Sagoins. — They 

 both of them differ from Monkies, in having neither 

 cheek-pouches nor callofities on their buttocks ; and they 

 are diftinguimed from each other by characters peculiar 

 to each. The Sapajou is furnifhed with a prehenale tail, 



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