PIG.-TAILED MONKEY. 
The Pig-Tailecl Monkey, Baboon, or Ape 
— for it has been described under all these ap- 
peliacions, and even by Edwards under the 
latter — receives it's common epithet from the 
circumstance of it's tail's being naked, and 
curled up like that of a pig; which is not the 
case with any other known species oi either 
the Baboon or Alonkey tribes. 
It's face is naked, and of a swarthy red- 
ness ; it's eyes are of a chesnut colour, and it's 
eye-brows black ; it has two sharp canine 
teeth ; and it's ears are like those of the hu- 
man species. The crown of the head is 
dusky ; the limbs and body are brown, in- 
clining to cinereous^; the fingers are black ; 
tlie nails are long -Und flat ; and the thumbs 
on the hind feet are very long, and connected 
to the nearest toe by a broad membrane. 
Though this animal is very spirited and full 
of fire, it has none of tliat petulant impudence 
l^hicli is so disgusting in the Baboon ; a dif- 
ference imputed by Buffon to t;^.e state of the 
genitals, which are in the Pig-'I'ailcd Monkey 
concealed 
