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EGRET MONKEir. 
S. Aygula. S. cmdata subimherhis grisea, eminentia pitosa <vertkii 
re'versa longitudinali. Lin. Sysf. Nat. p. 39. 
Long-tailed beardless grey Monkey, with a rising longitudinal 
tuft on the crown. 
Aigrette. Buff. 14./. igo.pl. 21. 
Egret Monkey. Pennant ^adr. p. zo"] . 
The description given by Linnseus of this species 
is neariy as follows : Body grey, or of the colour of 
a wolf, throat, breast, and under part Avhitish : tail 
longer than the body, cinereous and tapering: 
face flattish, whitish, and naked. Nose depress- 
ed, very short, remote from the mouth, with a 
double fissure of the upper lip : cheeks somewhat 
bearded; the hairs turning upwards. The eye- 
brows prominent and bristly: feet black, semipal- 
mated : nails of the thumbs rounded ; the others 
oblong. Ears rather sharp : a bowed suture tend- 
ing downwards from each ear towards the eyes to 
the base of the lower jaw: longitudinal suture of 
the cubit. Linnaeus also adds, that he had what he 
supposes a variety, in which the head w^as rounder: 
the face less black, and the colour of the body less 
ferruginous. He adds, that it was an active ani- 
mal. Mr. Pennant describes the Egret as having 
a long face, and an upright pointed tuft of hair 
on the top of the head: hair on the forehead 
black: colour of the upper part of the body 
olivaceous, of the lower cinereous : eyebrows 
large : beard very small : size of a small cat. It 
is said to inhabit India, and particularly the island 
