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VARIED MONKEY. 
Simla Mona. 5. caudata harhata, lunula superciliari elata ex alho 
grisea. Lin Sysf. Nat, GmeL p. 34. 
Olivaceo-ferruginous long-tailed Monkey, whitish beneath, 
with the cheeks bearded, and a lunated whitish band across 
the forehead. 
La Mone. Buff, 14./. 258.//. 36. 
Varied Monkey. Pennant ^adr. /». 2 1 o. 
This is said to be the species which gives the 
name of Monkey to the whole tribe: from the 
African word Monne ; or rather, as Mr. Pennant 
surmises, from its corruption Monichus, It is 
one of the larger species ; being about a foot and 
half in length, with a tail nearly two feet long. 
The nose, mouth, and spaces round the eyes, are 
of a dull flesh colour : the cheeks are bounded by 
long whitish hairs inclining to yellow : the fore- 
head is grey, and above the eyes, from ear to 
ear, extends a black line. The upper part of the 
body is dusky and tawny; the breast, belly, and 
inside of the limbs, white: the outside of the 
, thighs and arms, black : hands and feet black and 
naked : the tail of a cinereous-brown. On each 
side the base of the tail is commonly an oval 
white spot. This species inhabits Barbary, iEthi- 
opia, and other parts of Africa. It seems to dif- 
fer very considerably in the tinge of its colours, 
which are sometimes vivid and sometimes rather 
obscure : in general it is of a -blackish olive-grey 
