GREAT-EARED MONKEY. 
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tribes, though it's tall is not garnished with 
long hairs like that of the former animal. 
Edwards calls it the Little Black Monkey ; 
but we have preferred the more common 
name of the Great-Eared Monkey, as better 
corresponding w^ith the idea which certainly 
gave rise to the Linnrean appellation ; and 
which, in fa£l:, forms it's chief charadteristic 
distindlion. 
It is remarkable, however, that Goldsmith, 
who classes the Great-Eared Monkey among 
the Sagoins of the new continent, or monkevs 
with feeble tails, incapable of holding the 
animal in a hanging position, takes not the 
smallest notice of it's ears ; and barely men- 
tions, that it is usually black, with the feet 
yellow: some, however," he adds, " are 
found all over brown, spotted with yellow." 
This is all the account he gives us af the ani- 
mal J and, by mistake, as it should seem, for 
he probably meant to give the native name 
from BufFon, he calls it the Tamaim, instead of 
the Tamarin. 
