LESSER CAGUI MONKEY. 
lours, being dusky at the bottom, then reddish, 
and tipped with grey, which caused a mixture 
or variegation on it's back. The paws, ex- 
cept their insides, were covered with short 
hair. It had five toes on each foot, made 
like those of the squirrel, v/ith pointed claws; 
except on the two great toes or thumbs of the 
hinder feet, which had flat naiis. The tail was 
covered with a thick fur, in rinq;s of a lidit 
ash-colour and black, regularly succeeding 
each other throughout it's entire length. 
This is. the particular description of our 
Lesser Cagui Monkev, as delineated and do- 
scribed by Edwards: who observes, that^-tliis 
animal is described, and badly figured, by Piso, 
in his Natural History of Brasil: and, from 
him, described by Ray, in his Synopsia Me- 
tliodica Animailum Quadrupcdum. It secnis, 
also, according to Kdvvardsj and Buffon adopts 
the same opinion, that it is the Ccrcoplthecus, 
Sagouin, of Clusius, figured in his Exoticks. 
Johnston, in his tlistory of Quadrupeds, has 
given the figures from both Piso and Clusius, 
as separate and distindl animals: his figure 
from Piso, he by mistake, remarks Ed\Mirds, 
culls 
