GREAT-EARED MONKEY. 
low. The tail too, is black ; the teeth are very- 
white ; and the nails are long and crooked. 
Binet describes the animal as black, witb 
yellowish spots on the shoulders. It has, he 
says, the head and face of a lion ; with small 
teeth as white as ivory, and arranged with 
great symmetry j and is very familiar and 
playsome. 
Dampier, speaking of this species, says 
that, at low water they come to the sea- 
side, to feed on muscles and periwinkles-, 
which they dig out of the shells with their 
claws.'* 
From the impra6ticability of it's long sur- 
viving the cold of our northern clime, the 
Great-Eared Monkey is seldom seen alive in 
Europe, where it's peculiar habits are not at 
2,11 known. It appears, however, from the 
little which is to be colleiSled, in perusing the 
works of travellers and naturalists, that it is 
of a nature both a6live and docile ; and, in 
more rcspeits than in size, it reminds u« al- 
most as much of the scjuirrel as of the monkey 
tribes, 
