VAULTING MONKEY. 
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distinguished when seen in a healthy state : the 
hair on the top of the head resembling that of a 
boy; as if parted in the middle^ and lying smooth 
over the head. They are said to inhabit the woods 
in great troops, and to be very destructive to such 
gardens and plantations as lie within reach of their 
settlements. The tail in this species is very long : 
the nails of the thumbs are round ; the rest long. 
VAULTING MONKEY. 
S. Petaurista. S. caudata harhata, dorsoy caudle superiore et pedum 
anteriore latere ex oli-vaceo nigris, facie nigra, nasi macula triquetra 
ninea. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. /. 3 5 . 
Olive-black Monkey, white beneath, with a triangular snow- 
white spot on the nose. 
Blanc- nez. AUam.Buff. 14. /. 141. 39. 
Guenon a nez blanc proeminent. Buff, suppl. 7. /. 72. 18. 
This is described by Mr. Allamand in his edi- 
tion of BulFon's Natural History of Quadrupeds. 
It is said to be somewhat more than a foot high, 
and the tail about twenty inches long. The upper 
parts of the animal are of a dark olivaceous colour, 
owing to a mixture of olive-green and black hair : 
the face black, with a snow-white triangular spot 
on the nose : the chin, throat, breast, and belly, 
white : the under part of the tail and insides of the 
limbs of a blackish grey. It is a most extremely 
nimble and active animal, according to M. Alla- 
mand. The individual in his possession came 
from Guinea. It was perfectly familiar, playful. 
