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FOUR-FINGERED MONKEY. 
Simia Paniscus. S. caiidata imberbis atra, cauda prehensili, tnani" 
bus tetradactylis, Lin Syst. Nat. 37- 
Long-tailed bearded black Monkey, with prehensile tail and four- 
fingered feet. 
Coaita. Buff. IS- p- l^- pi I. 
Four-fingered Monkey. Pennant ^adr. p. 216. 
This animal is distinguished by tlie gracility of 
its body and limbs ; its uniform black colour, ex- 
cept on the face, which is of a dark flesh colour, 
and by the want of thumbs on the fore-feet, in- 
stead of which are very small projections or ap- 
pendices. It is one of the most active and lively 
of animals, and is, besides, of a gentle and tract- 
able disposition in a state of confinement. It in- 
habits the woods of South America; associating 
in great multitudes; assailing such travellers as 
pass though their haunts with an infinite number 
of sportive and mischievous gambols; chattering 
and throwing down dry sticks, swinging by their 
tails from the boughs, and endeavouring to inti- 
midate the passengers by a variety of menacing 
gestures. In some drawings of animals in the 
British Museum this species is represented with 
the orbits of the eyes perfectly white, and with a 
patch of white on each side of the tip of the nose, 
while the nose itself and the remainder of the 
face is of a dusky colour: in another figure of 
the same species the orbits and whole nose are of 
a very bright pale or whitish flesh colour. 
