GREAT-EARED MONKEY. 
The Great-Eared Monkey, or Simia Midas 
of Linnaeus^ is a species of monkey cbieily 
remarkable for it's ears, which are large, 
ere6l, naked, and almost square. 
BufFon calls it the Tamarin, as well as the 
Great-Eared Monkey; the former, according 
to Binet, being the name of this animal in 
Cayenne. 
This beautiful little creature, which is only 
about the size of a squirrel, is very lively, and 
easily tamed ; but it is so extremely delicate, 
that it cannot long sustain the inclemency of 
a northern climate. It inhabits the warmer 
regions of South Americai and is also found 
in the Isle of Gorgona, south of Panama, in 
the South Sea, 
The distln6tive charadters of this species, 
as described by BufFon, are as follows — 
It 
