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WHITE-NOSE MONKEY. 
Simla Nltctitans. S. caudata imherhis nigra^ f metis fallidis ad- 
spersa, naso alho, pollice palmar um hre'vissimoy natihiis tectis, Lin, 
Syjt, Nat, 40. 
Long-tailed beardless black Monkey, freckled with white the 
nose white ; the thumb of the hands very short; no callosities 
behind. 
White-nose Monkey. Pennant ^adr. p, 205. 
The distinguishing character of this species is 
the tip of the nose^ which is milk-white, while the 
face itself is black. The general colour of the 
animal on the upper parts is a mixture of black 
and tawny^ so as to appear in some lights of a 
black colour speckled with yellow. The under 
part of the body is white^ and the insides of the 
limbs are nearly of the same colour. The tail is 
very long, and is black on the upper and white on 
the under side : the thumbs of the hands are very 
short. The white nose in this species, like the 
white eyelids in a former, is not absolutely pecu- 
liar but is found in another. It is this similarity 
of marks in species, which, on exact examination, 
turn out to be really distinct, that causes the ex- 
treme difficulty in reconciling the different de- 
scriptions of authors, and settling their discordant 
synonyms and figures; and it must be confessed 
that much uncertainty still prevails. 
